Ancient Sumer

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The cities of ancient Sumer are
Over 4000 years old
Ancient Sumer was found in what part of the world?
Mesopotamia
What were the names of the two rivers that the cities of Sumer were built around?
Tigris and Euphatise
The Sumerian cities were built from
mud bricks
City states were governed by
A king
City states were surrounded by
huge walls for protection
Each city was dedicated to
A particular god
The very rich lived in
Huge palaces
The very poor lived in?
Cramped houses with few windows
People were divided into two broad classes
the free and the enslaved
Which these is a Sumerian invention?
wheel
Which is not a Sumerian invention?
Pyramid
Sumerian mathematics is based on parts of the numbers 1 to ?
60
How did the Sumerians write?
On clay using a stylus
What shape were all the Sumerian letters made from?
Triangle
What sorts of things did Sumerians write about?
Poems, stories, laws and invoices
Which of these was a god of the Sumerians?
Ninurta
What has been found buried with Kings, Queens and nobles?
Servants, weapons, gold and food
How big were the Sumerian temples?
Half the size of our playground
Sumerian temples were called ?
ziggurat