Social Studies Review

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

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow

• Wheel

• Sailboat

• All of them

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans

• scribes

• heads of households

• merchants

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Villiage

• Culture

The civilization of Sumer developed

• between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

• in the present day country of Israel.

• in Egypt.

• along the Nile River.

Land between two rivers

• Cultural Hearth

• Mesopotamia

• Cuneiform

• City-state

World’s first writing system

• Cuneiform

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• Mesopotamia

• Ziggurat

Which invention greatly increased farm production?

• Plow

• Lawnmower

• Ax

• Tractor

In order to have a division of labor, what did they have to have before that? 

• Farming

• Irrigation

• Food Surplus

• All of these