Geography
Sumer was located between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This word means to bring water to dry land
What is to irrigate?
The greatest Sumerian invention, it allowed Sumerians to keep records.
What is writing?
A person who buys and sells good for a profit
What is a merchant?
The Sumerians used this kind of plant to draw on clay.
What are reeds?
The Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers emptied into this body of water
What is the Persian Gulf?
This is a man made waterway used to irrigate dry land
What is a canal?
The Sumerians measured this by using the number 60
What is time? (60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour)
A building for the worship of a god or gods
What is a temple?
A small, flat piece of clay used for writing,
What is a tablet?
An area of low, wet land
What is a swamp?
Farmers used these to hold back flood waters
What are dikes?
Sumerians were the first to use these with carts and chariots.
What are wheels?
An independent city and the surrounding land it controls
What is a city-state?
A person whose job was to write.
What is a scribe?
These two seas were to the West of Sumer
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?
Sumerians used these animals to pull plows,
What are oxen?
The Sumerian farmers used these to water dry land
What are irrigation canals?
an open two wheeled cart pulled by horses
What is a chariot?
A legal written agreement between two or more people
What is a contracy
This word means "the land between two rivers" and is used to describe land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
Sumerian Farmers had to pay this based on the size of their property.
What is a tax?
The Sumerians traders were he first to use this kind of boats
What are sailboats?
A huge, towerlike temple
What is a ziggurat?
A wedge-shaped form of writing used in ancient Sumer
What is cuneiform?