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