The Sumerians

3. Building material that Sumer traded for.
6. A system of canals and dams that brings water to the fields.
8. In the hereditary system, he gets to rule after his father, the King, dies.
9. Head of the Sumerian home.
14. Most Mesopotamians farmed. Some were skilled workers called...
16. Belief in, and worship of, many gods and goddesses.
17. Kings, priests, warriors, and government officials were in this social class.
19. Each city's king got his power to rule from the city's chief _________.
20. Mesopotamia was in the eastern part of the Fertile______.
21. Two-letter Sumerian city (home of Abraham in the Bible).
22. These protected each Sumerian city-state.
25. Villages become a town. Towns become a ___________: a place for trade.
26. People in the lowest social class--usually prisoners of war.
28. The resource that all civilizations need for people, crops, and animals.

1. Each god or goddess controlled a different part of __________.
2. Means "the land between the rivers" in Greek.
4. The present-day country where Mesopotamia once was.
5. A powerful, independent city that controls the territory around it.
7. Domesticated animal raised, besides goats and pigs.
10. Step temple in the center of the city where it is said the gods lived at the top.
11. What most wars are fought over.
12. Major Sumerian crop besides barley and dates.
13. Social class of merchants, farmers, fishers, and artisans.
15. Irrigation systems allowed Mesopotamian farmers to have a _______ of food.
18. Mud and reeds, dried in the sun make these building blocks.
23. Small particles of soil make this material, which is very good for farming.
24. Most common job in Sumer.
27. How many thousand years B.C. that Mesopotamia was first settled.