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chapter 5 study
unit 1 chapter five studyguide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |