Geography
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
To worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
Technology to help with flooding and watering crops.
What are irrigation systems?
A huge block of stone engraved with the earliest complete legal code in human history.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Each Mesopotamian city-state was organized in this way.
What is a social pyramid?
The mountainous barriers to the north and east of the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tarsus and Zagros Mountains?
The pyramid type structures where the gods lived.
What are ziggurats?
The first system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
He is most well known for the code of law he created.
Who is Hammurabi?
Kings; Priests, artisans, and merchants; slaves and farmers.
What are the levels of the social pyramid?
The mineral deposits left behind after flooding.
What is silt?
The only people allowed within the building to worship.
Who were priests and kings?
An innovation which helped to improve agriculture throughout the region.
What is a calendar?
They gave kings their power.
Who were the gods?
Traded with each other and with other ancient civilizations.
Who were merchants?
The climate of Mesopotamia?
What is hot and arid (dry)?
Named their first capital for the god Ashur, who was believed to have lived there.
Who are the Assyrians?
The earliest piece of surviving literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The idea that all people were bound by one common set of laws established by the government.
What is rule of law or code of law?
Men have power in matters of government as well as family.
What is a patriarchal society?
The body of water where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Impacted every aspect of Mesopotamian life.
Who were the gods?
The first people to develop a system of writing
Who were the Sumerians?
The king’s officials, who came from the nobility, dealt with the administrative duties of this.
What are city-states?
To provide for the people's safety, he made laws, collected taxes, and established and led the army to protect the people from enemies.
Who was the king?