Sumer
Mesopotamia
Hammurabi
Technology
Vocabulary
100
To control the amount of water on the plains.
What is levees, dams and canals?
100
The land between two rivers.
What is the meaning of the word Mesopotamia?
100
What Hammurabi is best known for.
What is a code of laws?
100
Water supplied to their crops delivered through levees, dams and canals.
What is irrigation?
100
Ziggurats are used for this.
What is worshiping their gods?
200
The role of priests in Sumerian civilization.
What is communicate with gods?
200
This was the first Mesopotamian Empire
What is Sumer?
200
Based on Hammurabi's code of laws, what would happen if you put someone's eye out.
What is your eye would be put out also?
200
Sumerians used this to make tools and weapons
What is bronze?
200
Cuneiform is this.
What is a system of writing?
300
A steady food supply affected the development of Sumerian cities in this way.
What is it allowed people to stay in one place.
300
This is why civilizations grew in the area
What is rich, fertile soil?
300
This was the empire that Hammurabi ruled
What is Babylon?
300
The use of these aided trade along rivers and oceans
What are sails?
300
Creating a surplus when farming allowed this to happen.
What is specialization of labor?
400
Sumerians promoted trade using this system.
What is barter?
400
Due to better agricultural techniques, these grew large and powerful and became this.
What is city states?
400
The number of laws in Hammurabi's Code
What is 300 laws?
400
Though not created by Sumerians, aided in transportation and carrying of goods.
What is the wheel?
400
When strong rulers took over multiple city-states.
What is empire building?
500
When strong rulers conquered large areas in Sumer, they created the first of these.
What is empires?
500
Mesopotamia is located in this present day country
What is Iraq?
500
Hammurabi's Code was important for this reason
What is it established and enforced the rule of law or the idea that all members of a society must obey the law.
500
Metal used by Assyrians for tools and weapons-stronger than bronze.
What is iron?
500
The spread of cultural traits from one culture to another through trade and military advancement.
What is cultural diffusion?
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