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