Rulers
Name an invention of Sumerians
wheel, base 60 math system, plow, cuneiform (writing)
After leaving Egypt, the Israelites settled here.
What is Canaan?
Hammurabi controlled trade by building...
dams along the rivers.
A complex society that includes cities, organized governments, religion, social classes, and a writing system is a
civilization
What were Hammurabi's Code of Laws used for?
Why was it difficult to live in Mesopotamia? Why did people live near the rivers?
Everything else was desert.
A self-governing city is a
city-state
What was cuneiform?
a system of writing used by scribes