The Rise of Sumer and Sumerian Achievements Flashcards

1

Why would a scribe, or writer, be hired?

To make art
To keep records
To keep track of the items people traded
To move up in social class

2

The division of society by rank or class is

1%.
pecking order.
division of labor.
social hierarchy.

3

What are long poems that tell the stories of heroes?

Scribes
Cuneiform
Epics
Pictographs

4

Which invention was not created by Sumerians?

The plow
The wheel
A clock that used falling water
Pyramids

5

What was the world's first system of writing?

Sumer
Latin
Cuneiform
Sumerian

6

What are pictographs?

Below priests, but above farmers
Photos
Picture symbols
Kings

7

What is architecture?

The science of metalworking
The science of building
Mathematics
The science of medicine

8

What epic poem is the oldest known piece of literature?

The Iliad
Gilgamesh
The Republic
The Bible

9

A city and the countryside around it is called a

urban.
city-state.
village.
rural.

10

What are cylinder seals?

Small cubes covered with intricate designs
A pyramid-shaped temple-tower
Small stone cylinders engraved with designs
Small golden and obsidian cylinders covered with patterns

11

Belief in more than one god is called

polytheism.
monotheism.
atheism.
euphemism.

12

The king who spread Akkadia in the 2300s BC was

Drago
Gilgamesh
Zeus
Sargon

13

What number was the Sumerian math system based on?

60
100
420
360

14

Which instrument did Sumerians not use?

Ukeleles
Reed pipes
Lyres
Tambourines

15

What people wrote down information using cuneiform?

warriors
homo erectus
scribes
priests

16

What is a pyramid-shaped temple-tower called?

A quarrel
A trade network
A tomb
A ziggurat

The Rise of Sumer and Sumerian Achievements

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The Rise of Sumer and Sumerian Achievements

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