The Fertile Crescent
City-states
Sumerian
Later Peoples of the Fertile Crescent
Bonus
100
people who travel from place to place
What is a nomad?
100
city-states
What is consisting of a city and all the country-side surrounding it?
100
the worship of many gods
What is polytheism
100
First set of laws in history
What is Hummarabi's code?
100
a writer hired to keep track of the items people traded
What is a scribe?
200
a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
What is silt?
200
human-made water ways
What are canals?
200
the world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform?
200
the most famous Chaldean king
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
200
a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
What is a chariot?
300
nomads
What are people who travel from place to place?
300
the division of society by rank and class
What is social hierarchy
300
epics
What are long poems that tell the stories of heroes?
300
The instrument Sumerians used to write on clay tablets?
What is a stylus
300
the name of the Sumerian sun god
Who is Utu?
400
surplus
What is having more than is needed?
400
Division of Labor
What is the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task?
400
an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of lofty, pyramidal structures
What is a ziggurat?
400
Name of Nebuchadnezzar's Kingdom
What is Babylon
400
The name of the Sumerian goddess of love and war
Who is Inanna?
500
Three ways Mesopotamian irrigation systems allowed civilizations to develop
What are: water reached crops crop surplus meant that food was no longer a concern people were now able to stay put, build and create laws
500
Hammurabi's code was made up of this many laws
What is 282 laws?
500
Two ways Sumerian society is similar to our society today
What are: sewers the wheel cities and towns division of labor makeup
500
The two rivers surrounding the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates
500
If a man put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay this.
What is one-half its value?
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