Governments+
Beliefs+
Fertile Crescent
Sumerians
Misc.
100
A large body of people who think of themselves as one, are united under one ruler, and are subject to the same general laws

What is a nation?


100

The written record of mankind

What is history?

100

Structure built to try to keep man from being scattered after the flood

What is the Tower of Babel?


100

Instrument used by Sumerians to stamp their articles or documents

What is a seal?

100

Most important Sumerian city

What is Ur?

200

Leader of a republic

What is a president?

200

Marks the beginning of human history

What is creation?

200

The Sumerian city probably named after Babel

What is Babylon?
200

Supplying land with water

What is irrigation?

200

Mountain on which Noah's Ark rested

What is Mt. Ararat?

300

Leader of a constitutional monarchy

What is king or queen?

300

A false idea of how man began

What is evolution?

300

What Mesopotamia means

What is "between the rivers?"

300

Sumerian form of wedge shaped writing

What is Cuneiform?

300

Way of life

What is culture?

400

Type of government found in the U.S.

What is a republic?

400

Man's attempt to put himself in the place of God

What is humanism?
400

The first to use the arch and dome in their buildings

Who are the Sumerians?

400

Sumerian moon god

Who is Nanna?

400

Two major inventions of the Sumerians

What is the wheel and writing?

500

Type of government whose ruler is often born into office and has complete power

What is an absolute monarchy?

500

A belief based on fear and ignorance rather than the truth

What is superstition?

500

Powerful ruler of Ur remembered for having a Ziggurat built

Who is Ur-Nammu?

500

Her tomb revealed much about ancient people

Who is Lady Shubad?

500

Two rivers of the Fertile Crescent

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?