Chapter 3 Review 6th

Which is NOT an early form of writing?

The Sumerians invented what technology?

About how many symbols did cuneiform have?

Which culture used hieroglyphs as their earliest form of writing?

Who made up the working class in Sumerian society?

Which was a new farming technique invented by the Sumerians?

Mesopotamia was the land between which two rivers?

Which of the following describes an empire?

Which culture created an alphabet similar to the one we use today?

To stay in power, kings needed support of

What was unique about Hammurabi's law code?

Who developed the earliest writing systems in Sumerian society?

Which ruler reunited Sumer after the fall of Sargon the Great

Because Sumerians developed new farming techniques they produced more food and created a population

Sumerians used irrigation to bring water to crops during this season

Did city-states form before or after the Sumerians created new agriculture techniques?

Sumerians believed in ______, or the belief of many gods.

Who created Mesopotamia's first empire?

Some Sumerian symbols for words evolved into symbols for ____

Who were the first rulers of city-states?

The Sumerians created a number system that is still used today for telling time.

The transfer of ideas or customs from one culture to another is known as barter

Be sides irrigation Sumerians used this technique to prepare land for planting

Mesopotamia was part of a large region historians call the

A city-state included a ______ and the surrounding land and villages it controlled