MESOPOTAMIA LESSON 2 REVIEW (9/17)

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM:

1. What was Sumerian writing called?
2. What did Cuneiform use instead of pictures (like Hieroglyphics)?
3. What does the word "Cuneiform" mean?
4. What subject besides writing did they have to study in Sumerian writing school?
5. What is a large city and the land around it called?
6. What are 4 ways to compare the Sumerian city-states with the world today?
7. What did the Sumerians build for their gods?
8. What is the famous ziggurat we talked about?
9. How did Hammurabi gain control of Sumer?
10. What was found in 1901 that belonged to Hammurabi?
11. Where would this pillar of laws have been placed?
12. What was the world's largest city around 600 B.C.?


ANSWERS:
1. Cuneiform
2. symbols
3. wedge-shaped
4. Math
5. city-state
6. Large cities then and now, Self governing like our countries today, War between them like wars today, worshiped many gods like our world does today
7. ziggurats
8. Tower of Babel
9. cut off their water supply
10. Code of Hammurabi (pillar of laws)
11. center of town
12. Babylon