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Chapter 1 Ancient Mesopotamia
| Questions |
Answers |
| The Sumerian religion was a form of ______, which is the religious belief of many Gods. |
polytheism |
| The system of how people interact and live together in a community is called a _______. |
society |
| Each city in Sumer had its own main god and built a temple called a ______ to honor that god. Which is a Mesopotamian temple with a pyramid shape and staircases on the outside walls. |
ziggurat |
| Sumerians invented the wheel, which allowed them to make potter's wheels, carts, and _______, which is a carriage with two or four wheels - pulled by horses or other animals. |
chariot |
| Sumerians wrote by making marks in tablets, or slabs of soft clay by using a ______, which is a tall, thing grass used to draw on clay tables. |
reed |
| Sumerians also created a code of markings, like an alphabet, which historians called ________, which is an ancient form of writing that used symbols carved into wet clay tables. |
cuneiform |
| The system of how people interact and live together in a community is called a _______. |
society |
