1. Language and Communication
Sumerian Jeopardy
Agriculture
Ziggurats and Beliefs
Language and Communication
War
Daily Life 10 20 30 40 50

2. The Sumerians used this tool to get the soil ready for planting.
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3. What is a plow?

4. The Sumerians got water for crops from these two rivers.
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5. What are Tigris and Euphrates?

6. these kinds of vegetables.
The Sumerians grew
these kinds of vegetables.

7. What are onions and cucumbers?

8. Sumerians did this to
animals so they could
help the people work on
the farm.

9. What is domesticate?

10. canals from rivers to their crops, perfecting the innovation of this.
The Sumer people built
canals from rivers to their
crops, perfecting the innovation of this.

11. What is irrigation?

12. Ziggurats were built
out of this.

13. What is mud-brick?

14. Ziggurats were built
for this purpose.

15. What is to please the gods for a good harvest?

16. At the top of the ziggurats, the Sumerians built these.

17. What are shrines to the city’s special god?

18. According to Sumerian mythology, this god created humans.

19. Who is Marduk?

20. The Sumerians named the place their people went after death this.

21. What is the Land of No Return?

22. Before Sumerians had a written language, they communicated this way.

23. What is by spoken language and pictograms?

24. The Sumerians created the first form of written language called this.

25. What is Cuneiform?

26. Sumerian written language was recorded using these two things.

27. What are clay tablets and styluses?

28. The Sumerians recorded this type of information using written language.

29. What is ownership, trade, and stories?

30. This epic was one of the first stories ever to be recorded using written language.

31. What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

32. The Sumerians were often at war over these things.

33. What are resources such as land and water?

34. This two wheeled cart was used to help soldiers move more quickly in battle.

35. What is a chariot?

36. The discovery of this hard material led to the creation of many weapons of war, and other useful tools.

37. What is metal?

38. The Sumer soldiers used these to protect themselves
from their enemies.

39. What are helmets, armored cloaks, and body armor?

40. The Sumerians were eventually conquered by this civilization.

41. Who were the Akkadians?

42. You could tell if a Sumerian man was wealthy if he was wearing these things.

43. What are skirts and jewelry?

44. In order to go to school in
Sumerian times, you
had to be this gender.

45. What is male?

46. True or False: The Sumerian lower class was paid for their work.

47. What is true?

48. If you were a scribe,
your job was to do this.

49. What is write?

50. surplus and other goods.
These people would
sell and trade food
surplus and other goods.

51. Who are merchants?