Heritage Studies Test 2

used to sign documents and record

information

• the wheel

• twelve-month calendar

• cylinder seal

• cuneiform

was important to religious rituals and

daily work

• music

• barley-corn

• column

• epics

was developed along with the arch

• the wheel

• column

• cylinder

• cuneiform

smallest unit of weight

• seeder plow

• zero

• barley-corn

• epics

wedge-shaped writing

• writting

• music

• cylinder

• cuneiform

improved transportation by land

• the wheel

• horses

• cars

• wagon

writings about Mesopotamian gods and

military heroes

• epics

• fables

• fiction stories

• cuneiform

developed by using the cycles of the moon

• 12 month calendar

• the year

• the column

• the wheel

allowed farmers to drop seeds down a

funnel on the center of the plow

• tractor

• seed plow

• horses

• plow

the Mesopotamians were the first to

recognize the concept of this numeral

• five

• one

• zero

• one hundred