Rise of Sumer Review

Countryside Areas

• Urban

• Rural

• Priests

• Gilgamesh

Legendary figure in Sumerian Literature

• Sargon

• Empire

• Gilgamesh

• Priests

The city AND all the countryside around it

• City-State

• Rural

• Social Hierarchy

• Empire

The worship of many gods

• Priests

• Polytheism

• Sargon

• Rural

City areas

• Priests

• Empire

• Rural

• Urban

Akkadian King who built the first empire

• Sargon

• Polytheism

• Gilgamesh

• City-State

A land with different territories and people under one rule

• Urban

• Social Hierarchy

• Empire

• Gilgamesh

People who performed religious ceremonies

• Gilgamesh

• City-State

• Sargon

• Priests

The division of society by rank or class.

• City-State

• Rural

• Social Hierarchy

• Empire

Who had the most social status in Sumer?

• Priests

• Kings

• Craftspeople/ Merchants

• Farmers