A political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside
What is city-state
100
This was the world's first system of writing.
What is cuneiform.
100
Earliest collection of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code
100
Pictographs
What is: picture symbols used for written communication
200
Between which two rivers does Mesopotamia lie?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
200
True or False? Babylon was located near present day Baghdad, Iraq.
What is TRUE
200
This Sumerian invention greatly improved farming production.
What is the wheel.
200
A powerful ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch.
200
A large arc of farmland
What is the Fertile Crescent
300
Because irrigation made farmers more productive, they produced more food than was needed. This is called what?
What is a surplus.
300
A division of society by rank or class
What is social hierarchy
300
These are some of the reasons why the invention of the wheel helped make peoples live easier.
What is: used to make carts and wagons so transporting goods was easier. A potters wheel was also used to shape clay.
300
This powerful city-state rose under Hammurabi's control.
What is Babylon
300
The division of society by rank or class
What is social hierarchy
400
Name 3 reasons why Mesopotamia was an ideal place for a civilization to develop.
What are: rich farmland, surplus of food so population grew, people built cities and developed governments and cultures.
400
Describe the social hierarchy of ancient Sumer.
(Hint: list them in order from highest to lowest, starting with Kings at the top)
What are: Kings. Then priests and nobles. Followed by craftspeople and merchants being middle class. Farmers were working class and then slaves were at the bottom.
400
Pyramid, temple-shaped tower
What is ziggurat
400
Reasons why Hammurabi was a good ruler.
What is he worked to improve Babylon. Oversaw building and irrigation projects, and developed a written code of laws.
400
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism
500
True or False? The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on its population.
What is FALSE. It depended on its military strength.
500
Sumerians developed a math system based on this number.
What is the number 60.
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The ruler who conquered Babylon after Hammurabi.