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Sumerian
Achievements
Vocabulary
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2. Best known for his Code of Law

3. 100
Who is Hammurabi?

4. He was a legendary hero in Sumerian literature and battled the wild man Enkidu.

5. 200
Who is
Gilgamesh?

6. He built the capital of Akkad and was the first ruler to have a permanent army.

7. 300
Who is Sargon?

8. He was the most famous Chaldean King & responsible for building the famous “Hanging
Gardens”of Babylon

9. 400
Who is
Nebuchadnezzar?

10. The daughter of Sargon, she was the first female writer in history.

11. 500
Who is
Enheduana?

12. The two major
rivers in ancient
Mesopotamia

13. What are the Tigris and Euphrates
100
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers?

14. This word means “between
the rivers”
in Greek

15. What is
Mesopotamia?
200

16. A large arc of rich farmland from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

17. What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
What is
the Fertile Crescent?

18. One of the two mountain ranges that border Mesopotamia

19. What are the Zagros Mtns.? OR What are the Taurus Mtns ?
400
What are the
Zagros Mtns.?
OR What are the
Taurus Mtns ?

20. City where the
“Hanging
Gardens”
were located

21. 500
What is
Babylon?

22. An invention used by pottery makers to make pots round

23. What is a Potter’s wheel?
100
What is a
Potter’s wheel?

24. Copper and tin were combined to make stronger weapons out of this

25. 200
What is
bronze?

26. Sumerians invented a math system based on this number

27. 300
What is
60 ?

28. works of art were used to show ownership
These stone
works of art were used to show ownership

29. What are cylinder seals?
400
What are cylinder seals?

30. Three musical instruments the Sumerians played

31. What are reed pipes, drums, tambourines, and lyres?
500
What are reed pipes, drums, tambourines, and lyres?

32. Mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

33. 100
What is
silt?

34. A city and all the countryside around it

35. 200
What is
a city-state?

36. Sumer’s wedge-shaped writing

37. 300
What is
cuneiform?

38. A pyramid
shaped temple
tower with a
shrine on top

39. 400
What is
a ziggurat?

40. The science
of building

41. 500
What is
architecture?

42. The two main grains of Mesopotamian farmers

43. What are wheat and barley?
100
What are
wheat and barley?

44. writer who kept records and copied letters
Professional
writer who kept records and copied letters

45. 200
What is
a scribe?

46. A way of supplying water to an area of
dry land

47. 300
What is
irrigation?

48. A type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular job or task

49. What is division of labor?
400
What is division of labor?

50. The division of society by rank or class

51. What is social hierarchy?
500
What is
social hierarchy?