The Rise of Sumer

An urban area is defined as a ...

• city

• countryside

A rural area is defined as .....

• city

• countryside

What is land with different territories and peoples under a single rule?

• polytheism

• city-state

• empire

• priests

Sumerians worshiped many gods, what is this practice called?

• polytheism

• city-state

• empire

• priests

People who perform religious ceremonies are.....

• polytheism

• city-state

• empire

• priests

An area consisting of a city and all the countryside around it is a....

• polytheism

• city-state

• empire

• priests

According to legend, this leader was found by a gardener, in a basket floating in the river.

• Gilgamesh

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

He was a king in Uruk.

• Gilgamesh

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

Sumer had a social order where kings were at the top and slaves were at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Who was just below the kings in this social order?

• craftspeople

• farmers

• priests

• traders

Sumerians believed that the god of wisdom was.....

• Enki

• Inanna

• Enlil

• Utu