chap 1 test

Description:	6th grade ancient history
Category:	World History
Created by:	libbykaly on 2009-08-10

Question	Answer
A British archaeologist who uncovered the city of Ur in 1922	Sir Leonard Woolley
Men and women who study objects from the past to learn about the people who made and used them	archaeologists
Manmade objects such as pottery, clay tablets, jewelry, sculptures, and coins	artifacts
A hill built up over many centuries - word means “high” in Arabic	Tell
Quite advanced before the flood	civilizations
An archaeological excavation	a dig
An archaeological dig	an excavation
May be the first people to use the wheel	Sumerian farmers
Two Rivers that flow into the Persian Gulf	Tigris and Euphrates
A city in Sumer	Ur
Help archaeologists keep records	computers
One of the first civilizations	Sumer
Used to irrigate fields in Abraham’s time	canals
An important crop or plant used to make fabric	flax
People who copied written material	scribe
A reed used as a writing tool in wet clay	stylus
Sumerian’s form of writing - in Latin means “wedge shaped”	cuneiform
Used as an envelope	clay
Used to stamp their signature in the clay after a business deal	cylinder seal
Skilled craftsmen who turned raw materials into finished goods	artisans
Name of the goods that ships brought from India and Egypt like stone, wood, gems and metals for the workshops of Ur	imports
Animals that supplied meat as well as hides	goats, pigs, sheep
Animals used to work in the fields and to carry heavy loads	donkeys and oxen
Used to bring water from the river to the fields	irrigation canals
Helped oxen pull a plow	yoke
A river that ran along the eastern side of Ur	Euphrates
Goods sold to foreign traders	exports
A picture made on softened tar	shell inlay
The main design of a shell inlay may have been surrounded by blue stone called	lapis lazuli
Sumerian farmers may have been the first people to use the	wheel
This animal was so important to the Sumerians that they had over 200 different words to describe it	sheep
The most important foods of the Sumerians’ diet	fish and bread
The temple tower which took up ¼ of the city	ziggurat
The Greek word meaning “many gods”	polytheistic
An independent city and it’s surrounding land	city-state
A Sumerian school building	tablet-house
An assistant who helped the Sumerian teacher by writing out and checking assignments	“big brother”
The country that is now located where Mesopotamia once was	Iraq
Wise sayings that young school children often heard	proverbs
The chief teacher	school-father
A teacher who helped the students discipline themselves to study	“the man in charge of the whip”
Who was able to attend school?	usually only boys from wealthy families
What does B.C. stand for?	before Christ
What does A.D. stand for?	anno Domini, the Latin words for “in the year of the Lord”
Used to bring water from the river to the fields	irrigation canals
The system that brought water from the river to the Sumerian farms	irrigation
Helped oxen pull a plow	yoke
A river that ran along the eastern side of Ur	Euphrates
Goods sold to foreign traders	exports
A picture made on softened tar	shell inlay
The main design of a shell inlay may have been surrounded by blue stone called	lapis lazuli
Sumerian farmers may have been the first people to use the: wheel
This animal was so important to the Sumerians that they had over 200 different words to describe it	sheep
The most important foods of the Sumerians’ diet	fish and bread
The temple tower which took up ¼ of the city, ziggurat
The Greek word meaning “many gods”	polytheistic
An independent city and it’s surrounding land	city-state
A Sumerian school building	tablet-house
An assistant who helped the Sumerian teacher by writing out and checking assignments	“big brother”
The country that is now located where Mesopotamia once was	Iraq
Wise sayings that young school children often heard	proverbs
The chief teacher	school-father
A teacher who helped the students discipline themselves to study	“the man in charge of the whip”
Who was able to attend school?	usually only boys from wealthy families
What does B.C. stand for?	before Christ
What does A.D. stand for?	anno Domini, the Latin words for “in the year of the Lord”