Mesopotamian Achievements

Sumerians invented all of the following except 

• The wheel 
• The cuneiform 
• wheeled vehicles 
• air planes 

Skilled workers who made metal, cloth, or pottery products were called

• Priests
• Artisans 
• Scribes
• Heros

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

Using a system of canals and levees to control river water and provide water to fields of grain:

• Dikes
• Domestication
• Irrigation
• Aqueducts

Rich, fertile soil, carried by rivers and deposited on their banks:

• Sand
• Clay
• Silt
• Soil

A long series of poems or stories that tell the tales of a hero:

• an Aqueduct
• an Epic
• a prophet
• An Edduba

 A professional writer:

• Scribe
• Cuneiform
• Stylus
• Clay tablets

A self-governing city and its surrounding area:

• City-State
• Empire
• Country
• Nation

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

• pyramid
• ziggurat
• church
• holy tower

Who is at the top of the Sumerian social structure?

• slaves
• craftspeople
• king, priests, and govt. officials
• merchants