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unit 1 chapter five studyguide
Question | Answer |
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5-1 introduction | 150 years ago archeologists found out that sumerian people lived.sumerians invented the plow and writing. |
culture | a charactoristic of civilization that includes the believes and behaviors of a society |
civilization | a culture marked by developments in arts,sciences,government,and social structer |
5.2 charactoristics of civilization | sumer was a hard place to live in because of little amount of rain and rivers that flooded the plains |
social structure | the way a civilization is organized |
technology | the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes |
5.3 stable food suply | in sumer irrigation and plow helped to grow crops to eat |
5.4 social structure | there are three parts of social structure, upper,middle,lower.we are middle |
status | importance |
5.5 government | the king was beleived to be chosen by gods in Sumer |
chariots | a rwo-wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse |
scribe | a person who writes |
5.6 religon | sumerians gave citizens common rules to live by |
5.7 the arts | painting,architecture,music,and sculpting were the most popular arts sumerians used |
lyre | a wooden instroment made of a sound box and strings |
5.8 technology | technology that sumerians invented were the wheel,plow,writing,and arch |
5.9 writing | the writing that sumeranians used was called cuniform |
ziggurat | an ancient temple tower |