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M3 Lesson 2
Which of these are Sumerian inventions?
How did Sumerian Kings become Kings?
M3 Lesson 2
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How did Sumerian Kings become Kings?
The builders said they couldn't
The gods said they couldn't
The gods said that they could
The builders said that they could
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Which of these are Sumerian inventions?
Wagon wheel
Plow
Sailboat
All of the above
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A city and the surrounding farmland is called this.
country
nation
city-state
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Where is Sumer?
Middle East
Mesopotamia
Fertile Cresent
Modern-Day Iraq
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What feature of an empire did Sumer LACK?
Public works were organized
Rulers claimed to get power from the gods
One government ruled several groups
Many beautiful works of art were produced
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Sumerian pictographs which became the first form of writing
colony
irrigation
polytheism
cuneiform
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What are pictographs?
A symbol used to show something
Ice age fire
A sheet of ice
A way of life
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Why were Sumerian kings so powerful?
They were elected
They invented the irrigation systems
they went to scribe school
They were chosen by the gods
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Pictographs are picture symbols.
False
True
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A Sumerian city state is like a.....
Tiny country
A large country
A large city
A small City
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About how many Sumerian gods were there?
3,000
1,500
4,500
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Sumer was located where?
in the middle of the Sararah desert
huh? never heard of it
between the Ashley River and the Cooper River
between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers
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Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?
They had to fight off attacks
They formed caravans to safely visit the mountains
They exchanged natural resources
They cooperated to keep the water systems working
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What have you learned from Small farming villages to large city states?
none of the above
They built walls and moats to protect themselves
only 1-2
They killed the ones that threatened them
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What did Sumerian architects design?
temple sand ziggurats
weapons and cups
paintings and sculptures
jewelry and weapons
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This epic is an example of an art piece in what format in the Sumerian civilization. It was a
Sumerian metal working
Sumerian architecture
Sumerian music
Sumerian literature
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Sumer influenced life today by
invention of the plow
invention of the written language
all of the above
invention of the wheel
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What did the Sumerian City-States fight over?
Food
Water
Land
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Why were scribes important to the Sumerian Government?
To write down bad laws.
To Record laws.
To write down record laws.
Not having any laws.
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Why were Sumerian settlements called 'city-states"?
Each settlement served the Sumerian empire.
Each settlement had its own ruler and farmland.
Each settlement recorded the empire's history.
Each settlement had its own irrigation system.
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a Sumerian temple made of sun-dried brick
cuneiform
sarcophagus
ziggurat
villa
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How did the Sumerians link religion and government?
They built ziggurats
They thought the rulers were chosen by the gods
They voted who would be the ruler
The priests chose the ruler
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Sumerian city-states believed in...
Monarchy
Felix navidad
Polytheism
cheese
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Sumer as located here
SW Asia
West Europe
NE Asia
NW Africa
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Who had the most power in Sumerian society?
priests
merchants
artisans
farmers
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What was the effect of the invention of the plow?
helped grow more crops & create a surplus of food
what's a plow?
it caused destructive flooding
kids rode around in it to play
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A Sumerian mark of identification
seal
arch
statue
stamp
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An achievement of Sumerian culture was the deveopment of the
printing press.
press
wagon
wagon wheel
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At the top of the upper classes of Sumer were
kings and merchants
artisans and merchants
kings and priests
artisans and priests
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What were Sumerian city centers dominated by?
temples
houses
shops
castles
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religion was not important to Sumarians.
True
False
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What was Mesopotamian religion like?
Worship of the sun
Worship of a single god
Worship of animals
Worship of many gods
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Sumerian writing
cuneiform
hieroglyphics
sanskrit
cursive
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Which statement shows how Ancient Sumerian religion and goverment were connected?
Sumerians recorded their prayers on clay tablets.
Sumerians believed that the king got power from the gods.
Sumerians recorded te movements of the planets.
Sumerians believed tht merchants sold goods for the king.
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Sumerian ideas and inventions were...
forgotten all about
copied by other people
frightened other people
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Which one is not a Sumerian invention
plow
paper
wheel
irrigation system
