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Features of Civilization
Water, Water Everywhere!
Government and Religion
Working in the City
Arts and Writing
100
The number of features that make up every civilization.
What is eight?
100
This Greek word means "between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
To stay in power, kings needed the support of these people.
What are priests?
100
This is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
What a city-state?
100
Instead of using paper, Sumerian school children would practice their writing on this.
What is a clay tablet?
200
One role of this feature of civilization is to make up rules and laws for a society.
What is government?
200
This is what happens when a river overflows its banks.
What is a flood?
200
The number of gods and goddesses in Sumer.
What is over 3000?
200
Ancient city-states where surrounded by farmland. The Sumerians invented this important farming tool.
What is the plow?
200
If you were a boy, you might learn to become one of these official writers.
What is a scribe?
300
An ancient tablet containing Cuneiform would be evidence of this feature of civilization.
What is writing?
300
The Sumerians built these alongside their rivers in order to protect their land during a flood.
What are levees?
300
This Sumerian temple looked like a stepped pyramid.
What is a ziggurat?
300
This is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
What is barter?
300
This type of writing is made up of little pictures that represent words or sounds.
What is a pictograph?
400
These are groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society.
What are social classes?
400
These two rivers flow through the area known as Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
These people held the most power in Sumer.
What are priests and kings?
400
This was the name of the first Mesopotamian city.
What is Uruk?
400
Skilled craftspeople made jewelry and other beautiful works out of gemstones, silver, and this precious metal.
What is gold?
500
This is the name of another ancient civilization who once lived in Mesopotamia.
What is (the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, or Phoenicians)?
500
A large natural or artificial lake used as a water supply.
What is a reservoir?
500
Sumerian kings hired workers to build new canals, temples, and roads, examples of this feature of civilization.
What are public works?
500
Each Sumerian city-state had its own government, as well as its own one of these.
What is a god?
500
Around 2000 B.C., this long poem was written.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?