Vocabulary
City-State
Hammurabi’s Code
Mesopotamia Vocabulary
Grab Bag - Mix
100
A word that sounds like or means the same thing as it's name.
Onomatopoeia
100
is now called Iraq
Mesopotamia
100
Hammurabi wrote down laws so that everyone knew what the laws were.
Why did Hammurabi have to write down laws?
100
religious buildings in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Ziggurat:
100
can die (people)
Mortal:
200
Jane sat in awe as the stars danced across the night sky.
Personification
200
In the center of the city was ziggurats, the king, and the powerful people.
What was in the center of the city?
200
An eye for an eye means a more serious crime will have a more serious punishment. A smaller crime will have a smaller punishment. The punishment should fit the crime!
What does “eye for an eye” mean?
200
cities that had their own kings.
City-state:
200
the first laws
Hammurabi’s Code:
300
can’t die (gods)
Immortal:
300
Outside the city there were farms that gave the city food.
What was outside the city?
300
Life changed after the invention of the wheel and axle because people could carry things in chariots and move further.
How did life change after the invention of the wheel and axle?
300
people whose job it was to write.
Scribe:
300
Mesopotamia and Egypt, where there was healthy soil for crops and the first cities
Fertile Crescent:
400
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
400
They built the city near the river so they could have water for crops and for themselves.
Why did the city get built near the river?
400
--If you hit someone who is higher in rank, you get whipped 60 times --If a building collapses, the builder is killed. --If you steal, your hand is cut off. --If you steal something during a fire, you are thrown into the fire. --If you don’t farm your fields, they are given to someone else.
What is one other law in Hammurabi’s code?
400
Ancient Mesopotamian writing.
Cuneiform:
400
cuneiform
What language is written?
500
cloth
Textiles:
500
There was a wall around the city so the city was protected from thieves and attackers.
Why was there a wall around the city?
500
They buried their families with valuable objects because they believed the dead person’s spirit would use the objects in their afterlife. They wanted them to have a good afterlife!
Why did people bury their family with valuable objects?
500
what women pay a man to get married.
Dowry:
500
There was not much wood, so they couldn’t make paper. There was a lot of clay to write on.
Why did the Mesopotamians write in clay and not on paper?
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