Chapter 1 Study Guide Sumer of Mesopotamia

Chapter 1 Study Guide

Be ready to identify the following

Archeologists               

Leonard Wooley      

Sumer’s natural resources                                                                        

Religion                                                                                                                                           

Imports       

Exports         

Scribe                                                           

Sumerian Kings  

Flax    

Irrigation canals              

Cuneiform        

Cylinder seal                                                                             

Stylus      

Lapis Lazuli     

Nanna                                                                                                                                                       
Polytheism                                                                                                                      

Social classes of Sumer                                                                                             

 Sumerian Religion                                                 

Sumerian Education                                                                                                     

Sumerian City State

Egypt                                                                                                 

Monotheism                         

Theocracy                               

Ur                                                                   

Ziggurat                                                                                                         
Mesopotamia section on page 12                      

Geographical factors that influence life in Mesopotamia