3.2b The Sumerians

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​3.2B The Sumerians

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Match the following word with its definition

• Rural

• Urban

• City-State

• Gilgamesh

• Sargon

Countryside

City areas

City and all the countryside around it

one of Uruk's kings

established the world's first empire

• Countryside

• City areas

• City and all the countryside around it

• one of Uruk's kings

• established the world's first empire

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What is polytheism?

• Worship of many gods

• Worship of one god

• Many types of religious beliefs

• One type of religious belief

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Match the following picture with the appropriate term

cuneiform

epic

scribe

social hierarchy

• cuneiform

• epic

• scribe

• social hierarchy

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Why do you think writing is one of history's most important cultural advances?

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What were two early uses of the wheel?

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Why was the invention of the plow so important to the Sumerians?

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How did the Sumerian idea of dividing the calendar into 12 months relate to their math system?

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• What can we learn about ancient Babylonian society from these videos and resources? What were people like? Tech? Trade? How did they get conquered?

Watch and take notes on the four flood myths described in the video (from Mesopotamia's Epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament's Noah's Ark, Roman Ovid's Metamorphosis, and the Zoroastrian flood myth

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