Geography
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Code Of Hammurabi
Mesopotamia Society
100
Mesopotamia is between what two rivers?
The Tigris and Euphrates river
100
What was Sumer?
A city-state
100
What did the Mesopotamians believe in?
Polytheism
100
The Code Of Hammurabi was written on a black and tall what?
A black and tall stela.
100
Who was at the top of the Mesopotamian social class?
Kings/priest
200
Mesopotamia means "the land between two what?"
The land between two rivers.
200
Who wrote "The Epic of Gilgamesh" ?
Gilgamesh
200
Who grew the most of the food in Mesopotamia?
The farmers
200
True or false: There wasn't a punishment stated in the code of Hammurabi for murder.
True
200
The middle class had two groups one of them were farmers the others were?
Artisans
300
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers provided what type of soil?
Fertile soil
300
What is a series of rulers from one family called?
A dynasty
300
What civilization lied between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mesopotamia
300
Why was the Code Of Hammurabi important?
The first written set of laws.
300
What made the population grow?
The surplus of food.
400
What was great for growing crops?
Silt
400
The epic of Gilgamesh was one of the worlds earliest what?
Work of literature.
400
What was the largest most important structure in the city?
The ziggurat
400
Hammurabi was what to Babylon?
The king of Babylon.
400
Were rich merchants above or below artisans?
Above
500
What was the writing system in Mesopotamia called?
Cuneiform
500
Farmer and artisans were in what class?
Middle class
500
What is the most memorable rule?
An eye for an eye.
500
Who were in the lowest class?
Slaves.
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