Sumer

What is a city-state?

• The area inside the city wall
• The city and the countryside around it.
• The farmland
• The market place

What civilization was led by Sargon and was located north of Sumer?

• The Akkadians
• Egypt
• Babylonia
• Sinai Penninsula

Which word describes the religion of the Sumerians?

• monotheistic
• polytheistic
• paganistic
• Christian

Which word describes the Sumerian civilization?

• nonhierarchical
• hierarchical

Who is at the top of the Sumerian social structure?

• priest
• craftspeople
• king
• merchants

What was the name for a person who could read and write in Sumer?

• king
• government official
• scribe
• writer

What is the name for a pyramid shaped temple tower in Sumer?

• pyramid
• ziggurat
• church
• holy tower

What is an epic?

• a short poem
• a long poem
• a biography
• any genre with an adventure theme

What is cuneiform?

• a way of worship
• a system of farming
• a system of writing
• a type of medicine

The Sumerians invented which two things?

• fire and flint
• the wheel and plow
• the first buildings and fire
• the wheel and the car