Vocabulary
A disagreement, argument, or debate
What is a dispute?
These ancient temple towers built by Sumerians expressed their religious beliefs
What are ziggurats
Before this invention, Sumerian farmers used animal horns or pointed sticks to poke holes in the earth to put seeds into.
What is a plow?
What is social structure?
Human made objects, such as clay tablets, seals and statues found in Ancient Sumer.
What are artifacts?
A mandatory amount of money paid to the government
What is tax?
Sumerians used a wedge-shaped stylus to etch this written language into clay tablets.
What is cuniform?
Networks of canals, dams, and reservoirs built by Sumerians
What is an irrigation system?
Priests, land owners, and government officials were part of this social class.
What is upper class?
A symbol that stands for an object
What is a pictograph?
The beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people
What is culture?
The seven characteristics of a civilization
What is writing, technology, social structure, government, religion, stable food supply, and the arts.
Before this invention, people had to drag their goods on flat-bottomed carts called sledges.
What is the wheel?
The common class, which includes fishermen, merchants, and crafts people, is also known as
The middle class
A two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse
What is a chariot?
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
What is technology?
These two inventions made a stable food supply in Sumer possible
What is the plow and a complex irrigation system.
The Sumerians' most important invention
What is the wheel?
This belief made Sumerian kings very powerful
What is the belief that kings were chosen by the gods?
Ones presumed level of importance in a society
What is social status?
In Sumer, kings led the army, enforced laws, and built temples, showing that Sumer had this characteristic of civilization.
What is government?
This invention added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings.
What is the arch?
Scribes helped Kings with this task
What is write laws?