Ancient Sumer Timeline

What is a civilisation?

What are the characteristics of a civilisation?

Where in the world was Ancient Sumer?

• Zagros Mountains

• Saudi Arabia

• Iraq

• Egypt

3200 BC

• Sumerians built temples to their gods ‘ziggurats’

• The wheel is invented

• Pottery is mass-produced

• Started to inscribe on clay tablets

When did Sumerians start to use mathematics?

• 3000 BC

• 3200 BC

• 3100 BC

• 4000BC

The people called ‘Sumer ‘ moved into the land Mesopotamia

When did Sumerians build temples to their gods 'ziggurats'?

• 5000 BC

• 3500 BC

• 4000 BC

• 3200 BC

Pottery was mass-produced in

• 5000 BC

• 4000 BC

• 3300 BC

• 3000 BC

When did Gilgamesh become the 5th king of Uruk?