Geography
What is another name for Mesopotamia?
Fertile Crescent
What word means producing more goods or crops?
surplus
What are the 2 systems that created order in Mesopotamia?
Division of labor and social hierarchy
What does polytheistic mean?
many gods
List the correct order of the 3 main empires from oldest to most recent.
Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian
Mesopotamia is part of which region of the world?
The Middle East
What word means, a mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile and used in farming?
silt
What is division of labor mean?
Every person in the civilization had a different job to create a successful and well rounded civilization.
What type of religion did the people or Mesopotamia practice?
polytheistic
What 3 inventions is Sumer known for?
Agriculture (surplus), wheel (plow and cart), and writing (Cuneiform)
Which two rivers flowed through Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
What are three natural resources that early settlers of Mesopotamia used to build boats and tools?
wood, metal, and stone
What does social hierarchy mean?
Each person was ranked in society based on what job you had in the civilization.
What were ziggurats used for?
religious ceremonies, school to teach cuneiform writing, and official meetings with the kings
What 2 inventions is Babylonia know for?
A calendar and law
Which body of water is located at the southeast end of Mesopotamia?
The Persian Gulf
What did settlers have to do in order to farm in the region?
They had to irrigate the land along the banks of the 2 rivers in order for crops to grow.
Name the 4 main classes of people.
Priests, upper class, lower class, and slaves
What was the name of the most important building in a town that was built in the center?
ziggurates
What 2 inventions is Assyria know for?
Trade and war
Why was Mesopotamia the perfect location for a civilization to grow?
Because it offered rich, fertile land that was perfect for farming.
Name 4 crops that settlers of Mesopotamia grew.
wheat, barley, dates, cucumbers, onion, apples, herbs, and spices
How did an empire acquire slaves?
When they defeated another town or tribe in battle, they would bring back the prisoners as slaves.
Why were gods/goddesses important?
They dealt with nature and daily life and were assigned an empire to protect.
Give and example of one of Hammurabi's laws.
If any one brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it was a capital offense charged, be put to death.
If any one steals the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.
If any one takes a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death.
If any one breaks a hole into a house (breaks in to steal), he shall be put to death before that hole and be buried.
If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
If fire break out in a house, and some one who comes to put it out cast his eye upon the property of the owner of the house, and take the property of the master of the house, he shall be thrown into that self-same fire
If a an puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. (an eye for an eye)