Sumerian Achievements

Sumerians created the first wheel.

• True
• False

Sumerian astronomers

• Were also sailors

• Discovered that the Earth is round

• Developed a calendar based on the moon

The number system was based on

• 60
• 100
• 10
• 12

Mesopotamian script is called

• Hieroglyphs

• Sanskrit

• Latin

• Cuneiform

Writing was used originally for

• Trade and taxes

• Poems

• Laws

• Religious text

Define cuneiform.

• Picture symbols

• Writer

• The world's first system of writing

• The wheel

Define pictographs.

• The world's first system of writing

• Picture symbols

• Writer

• The wheel

All of the following are ways Sumerians used writing except

• History

• Law

• Grammar

• Sign language

• Stories

What was the most important technical advances?

• The wheel

• The plow

• Medicine

• The space shuttle

Why did Sumerians use plants, minerals, and animals?

• To make sculptures

• To use them as pets

• To make medicines

• To make perfumes