General Mesopotamia
Classes/Clothing/
Homes
Writing
Hammurabi/Sargon/
Assyrians
Sumerians
100
Meaning of Mesopotamia
What is land between two rivers?
100
Jewelry
What both men and women wore?
100
cuneiform
What type of writing did the Sumerians use?
100
Hammurabi
Who is most remembered for compiling a set of laws?
100
People who settled in Southern Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C.
Who were the Sumerians?
200
A complex division of labor
What is a result of food surplus in Sumer?
200
Material of clothing
What are flax, wool, and natural resources?
200
instrument to write with
What is a stylus?
200
Improvements Hammurabi made
What is made a code of laws? What is equal justice? What is reorganized Mesopotamia's system of taxation?
200
Crops of the Sumerians
What are barley, wheat, flax, sesame, onions, figs, fruit/vegetables, cucumbers, apples that Sumerians produced?
300
land and water disputes
What are the major causes of wars among people in Mesopotamia?
300
Mud bricks
What are homes made of?
300
A person who wrote things for others
What is a scribe?
300
1st known conqueror in Mesopotamia, became the regions 1st emperor
Who was Sargon I?
300
Inventions of the Sumerians
What are the wheel, writing/cuneiform, calendar, plow, sailboat, canals, soap, ramp, board games invented by the Sumerians?
400
Center of the city-state
What is a ziggurat?
400
Slaves
What is the lowest class?
400
A scribe kept track of these things
What are trade, kept records, wrote letters, stories and songs?
400
Empire brought down in 612 B.C.
What is the end of the Assyrian empire?
400
type of government
What is a monarchy?
500
Water for fields
What is a system of irrigation?
500
Highest Class
What are priests, kings, and doctors?
500
How we know what we know today about their writing
What is the work of an archaeologist?
500
Made improvements including roads
What are the achievements of the Assyrians?
500
Canals, dikes
How did the Sumerians control the rivers?
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