L5 Vocab And Study Guide Flashcards
A craftsperson
Artisan
A task or problem that tests a person’s abilities
Challenge
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structures
Civilization
To bring something new into being
Create
A characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people
Culture
Writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
Cuneiform
A way of life that offers much more that what is necessary
Luxury
A person who makes money by selling goods
Merchant
An interconnected system of channels or lines
Network
A symbol that stands for an object
Pictograph
Someone who is trained in a particular career
Professional
A person who writes
Scribe
The way a civilization is organized
Social structures
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
Technology
An ancient Mesopotamian tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top
Ziggurat
A society has a — if it has enough for its people
Stable food supply
Which ancient Sumerians most likely lived in two-story house near the center of the city
Priests,kings,nobles, and government officials.
Samoa mud-brick houses at the edge of the city were the homes of —
Farmers and fishers
Which inventions most affected the food supply in Sumer.
Plow complex irrigation systems
Who had the following responsibilities? (Lead the army, enforce the laws, have temples built.)
King
Which Sumerian belief about the king helped strengthen the social order
Believed that God supported the kings.
Why were scribes important in Sumerian government
Recorded contracts, developed a system of written laws
Which inventions made it possible for Sumerian armies to use chariots?
Wheel
What evidence found by archeologists shoe that Sumerians were not prehistoric Thayer had written records
They had written records
What did Sumerian use to produce cuneiform?
Wedge shaped stylus
Record of the goods people exchanged were made on
Wet clay
What inventions added strength and Beauty to Sumerian buildings
Arch
