Vocabulary
Code of Hammurabi
Ancient Mesopotamia
Achievements
100
To support the growth of many plants; capable of producing new life.
What is fertile?
100
Name this picture.
What is the code of Hammurabi?
100
Mesopotamia means land between two rivers.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River?
100
Name an invention the Sumerians created.
What is the wheels.
200
A tall, thin grass used to draw on clay tablets.
What is reed?
200
The King who took over other cities.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Name the first civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Mesopotamia is referred to as the "Cradle of Civilization.
What is stable food supply?
300
An ancient form of writing that used symbols carved into wet clay tablet.
What is cuneiform?
300
The purpose of Hammurabi's code.
What is the laws and punishments.
300
Mesopotamians found ways to make life easier.
What is irrigation systems?
300
Mesopotamians people invented this structure to prevent flooding.
What is levee?
400
A Mesopotamian temple with a pyramid shape and staircases on the outside wall.
What is ziggurat?
400
If a man knocks out the tooth of a man of his own rank.
Why he should knock out his tooth?
400
This is what Mesopotamian scribes used to make symbols into clay tablets.
What is reed?
400
Name 2 purposes of the "Standard of Ur".
What was life like in Sumer and the kind of work they did?
500
The religious belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
500
The code said that a person was innocent.
Until they were proven guilty.
500
This is the oldest form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
500
People of Mesopotamian observed the stars and planets.
What is ziggurats?