Civilization Of Sumer

Question 0

What is a wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Irak?

Answer 0

Mesopotamia

Question 1

What is a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf?

Answer 1

Fertile Cresent

Question 2

What does it mean to supply water to?

Answer 2

Irrigate

Question 3

What is an independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory?

Answer 3

City-state

Question 4

What is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money?

Answer 4

Barter

Question 5

What is a worship of many gods or deities?

Answer 5

Polytheism

Question 6

What is a brick, pyramid–shaped Mesopotamian temple?

Answer 6

Ziggurat

Question 7

What is a Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things?

Answer 7

Cuneiform

Question 8

What is material rag that the Sumerians used to help make better tools and weapons?

Answer 8

Bronze

Question 9

What are pictures that represent objects?

Answer 9

Pictographs