HA The Ancient World-Ch5-Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?

Stable food supply, writing, social structure, technology, religion, government and the arts are characteristics of ________________.

• challenges

• status

• civilization

• artifacts

The creation of an ___________ allowed for canals, dams and reservoirs to provide their crops with a regular supply of water.

• irrigation system

• plow

• stable food supply

• writing

The invention of the ________ allowed for the tilling or turning of soil to prepare it for planting to go faster and be easier to complete.

• irrigation system

• plow

• stable food supply

• religion

Civilizations have a complex organization, or __________. This includes different jobs and social levels. People at higher levels have greater status than others.

• stable food supplies

• government

• religion

• social structure

The _________ class was made up of priests, land owners, and government officials. These people had the lasrgest and most luxurious homes, near the center of town made of whitewashed mud walls.

• top

• middle

• bottom

The _________ class included farmers, fishermen, merchants and craftspeople. They worked with items such as metals of gold, silver, tin, lead, copper and bronze making swords and arrowheads for the army. They made tools, luxury items and worked on the irrigation systems and sometimes in the army.

• top

• middle

• bottom

The _________ class included slaves. They lived in their owners' homes and had no property of their own.

• top

• middle

• bottom

Sumerian city-states were ruled by _______. They believed they were chosen by the gods to rule in their place.

• lords

• kings

• soldiers

• ziggurats

The Sumerian army included both professional soldiers and temporary citizen-soldiers. Some were foot soldiers. Others drove chariots.

• true

• false

Which of the following is not a reason that religious beliefs in Sumer make the government more powerful?

• Sumerians believed the kings were chosen by the gods

• Sumerians believed they must obey the will of the gods

• Sumerians did not believe in religion.