Chapter 3 Lesson 3

Question 1

Sumerians are remembered for their many

Answer 1

Innovations

Question 2

3 innovation of the Sumerians were

Answer 2

The plow that plants
Sickles
Hoes

Question 3

Where did Sumerians write advice for other farmers

Answer 3

Almanacs

Question 4

What were almanacs written on

Answer 4

Clay tablets

Question 5

What was the largest buildings in every city state

Answer 5

The ziggurat

Question 6

What is the name of the Sumerians temple

Answer 6

Ziggurat

Question 7

What type of writing did the Sumerian

Answer 7

Cuneiform

Question 8

Who wrote on clay tablets

Answer 8

Scribes

Question 9

What does Mesopotamia mean

Answer 9

Land between two rivers

Question 10

What city did archaeologist Leonard Woolley write about

Answer 10

Ur

Question 11

Where was the earliest known writing found

Answer 11

Kish

Question 12

Uruk provided evidence that

Answer 12

Sumerians had devolved a writing system

Question 13

What agricultural techniques helped the mesoptomians produce economic surpluses?

Answer 13

x

Question 14

What advances in measurements did the Sumerians develop?

Answer 14

x

Question 15

How do ziggurats show that religion was important to the Sumerians?

Answer 15

x

Question 16

How did new forms of transportation change people’s lives?

Answer 16

x

Question 17

How did writing help make the development of civilization possible?

Answer 17

x

Question 18

why did sumerians develop standard measurments of land?

Answer 18

x

Question 19

what type of houses did sumerians live in?

Answer 19

x