Social Hierarchy
People
Geography
City life
Beliefs & Language
100
This group is at the top of the social hierarchy
What is kings
100
This king created a code of laws for the people of Babylon to follow.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
Mesopotamia is often called the land between the..
What is the 2 rivers?
100
This is defined as a city and all the countryside around it.
What is city-state?
100
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
200
This group is the bottom level of the social hierarchy
What are slaves?
200
This group of people is just under the kings in the social hierarchy.
What are priests?
200
Define Fertile Crescent.
What is "an area of rich farmland located in Southeast Asia where the first civilization began"?
200
Define urban.
What is the city?
200
The name of the pyramid like structures in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
300
The definition of social hierarchy.
What is the division of society by class or rank?
300
Gilgamesh wrote his famous epic about a monster with this name.
What is Hambaba?
300
DOUBLE POINTS!! Get this correct and add double the points to your score.... The modern day country where Mesopotamia was located in.
What is Iraq.
300
Define rural.
What is the countryside?
300
Define Cuneiform
What is "the world's first system of writing; developed in Sumer"?
400
This group is the middle level of the social hierarchy.
What is the traders, craftspeople, and scribes?
400
Education is Sumer was reserved for men, a woman could get an education because she was this.
What is upper class?
400
Crops grew well in Mesopotamia because of this.
What is the flooding of rivers that created the fertile soil?
400
The method of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
400
Name the most important reason the city wall was so important to the city-states.
What is for protection?
500
This group is almost at the bottom of the hierarchy, they produce a majority of the food for the Sumerians.
What are the farmers?
500
This king was famous because he was the first to have a permanent army.
Who is Sargon?
500
Name the 2 rivers that form the area called Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
500
Irrigation in Mesopotamia was needed for this reason.
What is to control the flow and flooding of the river?
500
This job title was the person who actually write out the Cuneiform on the tablets daily.
What is a scribe?
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