| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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” |
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