Mesopotamia Sections 3-3 & 3-4

What is a transfer of ideas or customs from one culture to another?

• empire

• cultural borrowing

• Alphabet

• It's sharing textbooks in class

What is a latin term meaning "wedge shaped"

• cuneiform

• pictograph

• alphabet soup

• sketch

Chariots were called

• wheeled war vehicles

• race cars

• transportation

• the old version of a car

A group of countries or people ruled by one government

• Barbarians

• Sumerians

• Empire

• group of people hanging out

A small set of letters or symbols, each of which stand for a single sound

• Cuneiform

• writing

• Alphabet

• just someone using sounds

When one people defeats and controls another

• Barbarians

• a type of battle

• Sumerians

• Conquest

When one people defeats and controls another Most historians agree that writing was first invented in the ____________________around 3500 BCE.

• Middle East

• Sumer

• Egypt

• San Diego

Hieroglyphics were formed as the basic Egyptian writing when?

• Around 3000BCE

• 2301 BCE

• Sargon ruled

• 4500BCE

Sumerian scribes made it easier to _______ by pressing wet clay. What was made easier?

• symbols

• pictograph

• cuneiform

• all types of storytelling

How long did scribe school last ?

• two weeks

• five weeks

• twelve years

• twenty five years