Sumerian Challenge

4. Shape of Sumerian cities
6. The Sumerians started the first of these to train scribes to read and write
9. Independent city-states disagreed over the use of and land and ________
11. The belief in many gods or goddesses
13. People living in cities began to ______________ in other types of jobs (like artisans or soldiers)
15. Type of writing developed by Sumerian priests to help them keep records
16. The first creators of civilization
17. Place where food in the city was kept

1. Magnificent structures many stories high that symbolized power and greatness of a city
2. People who eventually began the rulers of the Sumerian city-states
3. Sumer was located in the Southeast corner of __________
5. To feed the people in the cities, rulers protected, controlled, and taxed this area outside the city walls
7. People who developed algebra, geometry, and a calendar by studying the stars
8. People who began to work together
10. Group of people who built dikes, reservoirs, and irrigation systems
12. These formed the boundary of a Sumerian city
14. Most people lived in flat houses made of _____