Chapter 2: Sumer

Question 1

what was the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 1

The nearest strip of land name for its fruitfulness, and for the likeness of a shape to a crescent, moon, thought to be the garden of Eden 

Question 2

what nickname is given to the fertile crescent?

Answer 2

The cradle of civilization 

Question 3

what are the two important rivers of the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 3

Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question 4

what was the other name for the Fertile Crescent which means between Rivers?

Answer 4

Mesopotamia

Question 5

what is the biblical name for the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 5

Plain of Shinar

Question 6

What were the three oldest Sumerian Settlements?

Answer 6

Eridu, Uruk, and Ur

Question 7

what was the Sumerians greatest contribution to civilization

Answer 7

The art of writing

Question 8

What was the Sumerian writing called?

Answer 8

Cuneiform

Question 9

which Englishman successfully broke the code of trilingual cuneiform inscriptions?

Answer 9

Sir Henry C. Rawlinson

Question 10

What was the earliest form of cuneiform?

Answer 10

Pictograms

Question 11

Who is history’s second great empire builder?

Answer 11

Sargon of Akkad

Question 12

Who came to the throne of Ur about 2100 BC and found the famed third dynasty of Ur?

Answer 12

Ur-Nammu

Question 13

Who developed the world’s most ancient law code?

Answer 13

Ur-Nammu

Question 14

what is a culture?

Answer 14

The way of life of a group of people

Question 15

what must take place before there is a civilization?

Answer 15

Mastery over the food supply

Question 16

Define civilization

Answer 16

A specialized division of labor, a written language, a written code of laws, an organize form of civil government, and the development of arts and sciences

Question 17

What is education?

Answer 17

The process of transmitting, the cultural heritage other people from one generation to the next

Question 18

True/false: the Sumerians were the first developed a system of formal schooling

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What word means tablet house?

Answer 19

edubba

Question 20

What was the most important Sumerian industry in terms of commercial activity?

Answer 20

Textiles

Question 21

what is the term known for the Sumerian temple towers?

Answer 21

Ziggurats

Question 22

Who were the first astronomers?

Answer 22

The Sumerians

Question 23

name the astronomical contributions, the Sumerians gave

Answer 23

Lunar month and astrology

Question 24

What is known as a spreading of cultural traits and patterns?

Answer 24

Cultural diffusion

Question 25

What word is used for the Sumerian King?

Answer 25

lugal

Question 26

Name the four people groups in Sumerian society

Answer 26

The nobles, the commoners, the clients and the slaves

Question 27

what is known as a belief in one god?

Answer 27

Monotheism

Question 28

What is known as the worship of nature rather than the creator of nature?

Answer 28

Naturalism

Question 29

what is known as the worship of a host of deities?

Answer 29

Polytheism

Question 30

what is the oldest work of literature outside the Bible?

Answer 30

the epic of Gilgamesh

Question 31

what is an epic?

Answer 31

A long poem written in a dignified form, which tells the story of a great fictitious or historical hero