vocabulary
a person who writes and records things for others.
What is a scribe?
King of Babylonia. Believed in fairness. Carved 282 laws in a stone for all to see that mainly followed the idea - an eye for an eye.
Bronze was made by mixing these 2 things together?
What are copper and tin?
The ruler of an empire.
What is an emperor?
The most famous tale in Sumerian culture?
What is the epic of Gilgamesh?
a writing system made up of this many symbols.
What is cuneiform and 700 symbols?
Ruler of Ur. Wrote laws as if-then statements.
Who is Ur-Nammu?
What are wheels?
To take over.
What is conquer?
With writing, these are some of the things scribes recorded. (Need 3)
What are boundary lines, wars, lists of kings, gifts to temples, records of trade, food supplies, literature, songs, and stories?
writings that include information that describes that best way to plant, irrigate the land, and care for crops.
What is an almanac?
One of Babylonian's empires best known rulers. He is believed to have built the hanging garden of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Assyrians invented this item and built the first of these.
What is a magnifying glass and a library?
A required payment from one ruler to a more powerful ruler. This brought much wealth under this ruler's control.
What is tribute? Who is Sargon?
This group was considered to be the middle class.
The largest and tallest temple in every sumerian city-state. As cities grew, these also grew in two areas.
What is a ziggurat? What is wealth and power?
Ruler of Lagash. Created laws to prevent government leaders or the wealthy from taking advantage of the poor.
Who is Urukagina?
Assyrians were great innovators. They were said to be the first to create these systems.
What are the system of paved roads and the postal system?
A new way of doing something. For example, early farmers developed new agricultural techniques, such as this important system of watering.
What is innovation? What is irrigation?
Sumerian women had these rights and freedoms. (name 3)
What is owning property, running businesses, divorcing, be priestesses or scribes?
A god. Enlil and Enki were these.
Conquered many Sumerian city-states. Created the world's first empire. Ruled over Akkad.
Who is Sargon?
What are weight and volume (quart) used for measuring crop harvests and conduct trade.
vast lands and varied people under the control of a single government. This was created by Sargon and set up this city as the capital.
What is an empire? What is Akkad?
Farming tools were first made out of this material but bronze tools like this one, improved farming in these ways.
What are clay farming tools? What are plows - made tools stronger - farmers could turn soil easier which led to larger fields that produced larger crops.