Sumerian Civilization Quiz (Heritage Studies 6)

An invention that made farming more efficient:

• Yoke

• Trench

• Plow

• Wheel

To hold back the floodwaters, Sumerians built up ________:

• Levees

• Canals

• Irrigation

• Rivers

Farmers used irrigation to keep ________ alive throughout a hot summer:

• People and crops

• Crops and animals

• Canals

• Rivers

A result of efficient farming techniques and a surplus of food was ________:

• Culture

• Specialized jobs

• Villages

• Fewer people

A large and independently run city in Sumer was called a ________:

• Civilization

• City

• Village

• City-state

The person in charge of a city state originally was a ________:

• King

• Priest

Strong armies fought each other over ________:

• Crops and animals

• Farmland and water

• Their gods

• Ziggurats

This powerful city-state existed during the lifetime of Abraham:

• Kish

• Akkad

• Canaan

• Ur

People in the upper class included ___________:

• priests

• Scribes

• Government officials

• All of the above

People in the middle class included _____________:

• slaves

• Priestesses

• traders

• All of the above