| A | B |
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| through their cuneiform tablets | How do we know about the Sumerian Civilization? |
| Tigris, Euphrates | What was the name of the 2 rivers surrounding the region of Sumer? |
| cattle, sheep, donkeys, goats | What animals did the Sumerians raise? |
| to water their crops | Why did the Sumerians build canals? |
| a writing system | What is "cuneiform"? |
| 600 | How many symbols did the cuneiform system have? |
| marks were faster to make | Why was it easier to make marks than drawing pictures? |
| with a pointed tool | With what did the Sumerians make the cuneiform symbols? |
| clay dried in the sun | What were the cuneiform tablets made of? |
| religion, politics, laws | Write 3 things about which the Sumerians wrote on the tablets |
| so that the writing would remain | Why did they dry the tablets in the sun? |
| for protection against invasion | Why did Sumerians build walls around their cities? |
| outside the city walls | Where did the farmers plant and harvest their crops? |
| in warehouses in the city | Where did the farmers keep their crops? |
| caravans of merchants | Who would buy the crops from the farmers? |
| build temples and palaces | What did the Sumerians do with the money they made from selling their crops? |
| statues of Sumerian gods | What was there inside the temples? |
| gold and jewels | What were the statues of the gods made of? |
| The priests were their teachers | Why did priests have influence on the farmers' lives? |
| artist, craftman, priest | Write 3 professions that were possible once the farmers produced more food |
| Mesopotamia, fertil crescent | What is the name of the area where the Sumerians lived? |
| a fertile valley between the Tigris y the Euphrates | What was the "fertile crescent"? |
| it was the first civilization | Why is the Sumerian civilization important in history? |
| with an irrigation system | How did the Sumerians water their crops? |
