Things You Should Be Able To Do
- Name two things all Sumerians had in common
- Name the social groups
- Be able to order the social groups by size and by power/wealth
- Describe why priests were important
- Describe what a Ziggurat was for
- Describe what type of religion Sumerians had
- Were they atheistic, monotheistic, or polytheistic?
- What did they think the gods were like?
- How were gods and city-states related?
- Describe the basic size and details of a Sumerian city-state
- Describe what Sumerian housing was like
- Describe what Sumerian writing was called, what was written on, and what tool they used
- Describe what number Sumerian math was based on
- Name the earliest form of Sumerian art
- Describe the wax method
- Say why the pottery wheel was a good thing
- Describe what the lyre was, and how it related to Mesopotamian art