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Why did Sumerian kings have so much power?
What are plains?
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What are plains?
tall features with a flat top
flying machines
where a river enters the ocean
large, flat areas of land
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Why did Sumerian kings have so much power?
they were aliens
they controlled the water
they controlled the army
the people believe they were supported by the gods
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How did Sumerians deal with flooding?
they built levees and canals
they used stilts
they went swimming
they ran away
4
Sumer was part of . . .
Iran
Mesopotamia
China
India
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a writer
artisan
scribe
merchant
ziggurats
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Sumerian writing
hieroglyphics
cuneiform
Sanskrit
alphabet
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Many people lived in the foothills of which mountain range?
the Zagros
the Rockies
the Himalayas
the Alps
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A city that acted like its own country, with its own laws and government: what is this?
a state-city
a levee
a city-state
a country
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Tools and other inventions that help you complete a task:
technology
government
religion
social structure
10
What's a canal?
a Mesopotamian temple
a flat cart
a river
man-made waterway
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a stringed instrument, similar to a small harp
sledge
lyre
drum
guitar
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Out of the list below, who ranked the lowest in Sumerian society?
farmers
slaves
nobles
artisans
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The two rivers that made Mesopotamia so successful were the . . .
Tigris and Euphrates
Timmy and Elaine
Yangtze and Huang He
Tiger and Eureka
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What problem did people have with the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
they couldn't cross them
they were polluted
they either provided too much water or too little
they went too fast
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Out of the list below, who ranked highest in Sumerian society?
priests
slaves
artisans
fishers
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a skilled craftsperson
artisan
merchant
scribe
ziggurats
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a person who sells goods
artisan
ziggurats
merchant
scribe
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What's a levee?
a small city
a water canal
particles of rock
a wall to prevent flooding from a river
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How did the Sumerians deal with times when the land was dry?
they dug out canals
they had pools to store water
they built levees
they called the Culligan man
20
Why did the villages start joining together to make city-states?
it made babysitting easier
for protection
for religious holidays
they were working together on the irrigation system
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a Mesopotamian temple
scribe
artisan
ziggurat
merchant
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What kind of protection did most civilizations have by around 3000 BCE?
iron weapons
walls and moats
moats and boats
guard dogs
23
The Sumerians invented the wheel. What was it used for
originally?
to play a game
to make a chariot
to make a cart
to make pottery
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How a civilization is organized:
government
pictographs
social structure
religion
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What was most of the fighting between city-states about?
food
kings were competing to see who's best
water rights
theft
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What is silt?
big areas of farmland
a soft fabric
the best water from the river
tiny particles of rock in a river
