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What number was the Sumerian system of math based on?

What means "the land between two rivers"?

What type of radar uses light waves?

What is a person that studies ancient inscriptions?

In which city was the Anur Ziggurat located?

These were members of an educated class who served as copyists, teachers, and jurists

What did the Sumerians get from modern day Lebanon, Turkey, and Syria?

perhaps the oldest written story on Earth about the adventures of the historical King of Uruk

Where did the people in Sumerian cities sleep?

The Sumerians used this metal because it was easier to mold and had lower melting point and less corrosion than copper

What is the earliest known form of writing?

The "mainstay" of Sumerian Civilization was

Polytheism is ther belief in only one god.

a branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification

a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of legendary figures

The Sumerians created this, which is one of the strongest architectural forms

What is a stepped, pyramid-like structure (built upwards in layers)

What is the scientific study of artifacts?

Why did the Sumerians use the barter system?

This image shows how Sumerians would

What is the Sumerian method of writing using a stylus to make wedge shapes in a clay tablets?

Food procurement, Labor organization and trade patterns can be determined by

What means giving human traits to non human entities?

What type of Radar is known as ground penetrating radar?

What type of wood did the Sumerians use for building?

In the Sumerian pantheon, who was the creator of the universe?

What is a system of government in which religious leaders (prophets, priests, etc.) rule in the name of a divine being?

What taints and distorts the view of all history, particularly ancient history?

Who was the Sumerian deity that ruled the city state of Nippur?

Carpenters, scribes and masons had their homes located near Sumerian

What is a form of doing business that uses trade rather than money?

How could the Sumerians actively chart the movement of stars and planets?

What is this an image of?

What was the transportation revolution created by the Sumerians?

Sumerian for the “black-headed ones; a self-given name for the Sumerians