The Sumerians

1. Influenced by the pottery wheel, two-wheeled vehicles in which a driver drove a team of animals
4. Writing created after pictographs evolved into symbols that represented words
5. Sharpened reeds to scratch symbols into wet clay
8. The process of using furnaces and bellows to control heat to extract minerals to make copper and bronze.
10. A vital tool created to break up the tough soil of the field in order to plant seeds and plants
11. Calculations using numbers is called ________ and was made possible by the Sumerians formal number system based on units of 60
13. Mud was used as a building material since Sumeria lacked wood or rocks. They used molds to form it into _______.
14. The Sumerians gathered wool and used it to weave fabrics in large quantities. The fabrics are called _________.

2. A writer in ancient Sumeria
3. Early writing consisting of picture writing
6. Group of people who established a settlement in Mesopotamia, near the Persian Gulf
7. Sumerians created wheels to help mold this ancient vessel to store food in
9. complex systems of dams made of reeds and mud to keep water from flooding agricultural fields
12. Collecting water and the rich silt it contained for use in watering and fertilizing agricultural land