p.40

Question 1

Sumer

Answer 1

in the south region of Akkad in the north.

Question 2

Akkad

Answer 2

a city - state in northern Mesopotamia, the ruler of which conquered all the city states of Mesopotamia and formed the world’s first empire

Question 3

Urck

Answer 3

was a large Sumerian city state as many 50,000 people might lived in Uruk by about 2800 b.c Outside of the cities were vast, irrigated farm fields that supplied the city with food.

Question 4

Gilgamesh

Answer 4

Sumerian king whose adventures were recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 5

Sargon

Answer 5

Akkad king who United all of the city-state of Mesopotamia in his rule,forming the world first empire

Question 6

Enheduanna

Answer 6

Daughter of Sargon and appointed the high priestess of Ur.

Question 7

ur-Nammu

Answer 7

Sumerian king who founded the last and most successful dynasty of Ur

Question 8

Shulgi

Answer 8

King of the Sumerian dynasty of Ur who was also the son of Ur Nam mu

Question 9

ziggurat

Answer 9

a huge pyramid-shaped structure consisting of a series of stacked rectangular platform

Question 10

society

Answer 10

an organized community with established rules and traditions

Question 11

poltheism

Answer 11

the worship of many gods

Question 12

scribe

Answer 12

a professional writer

Question 13

cuneiform

Answer 13

a form of wedge-shaped writing used in ancient times

Question 14

conquer

Answer 14

to defeat

Question 15

empire

Answer 15

a large territory consisting of many different places under the control of a single ruler

Question 16

dynasty

Answer 16

a ruling family