Geography
The two rivers Mesopotamia was in between of
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River?
Hammurabi of Babylon is famous for what?
What is Hammurabi's Code?
What was the Sumerian symbolic writing?
What was cuneifrom?
Working together considered politics. True or false?
Who had more rights: men or women?
Men.
A Sumerian city with its own god and government
What is a City-State?
The number of years Sargon I ruled for is...
56 years.
What was a big achievement in human history that Babylonian people conquered?
What are written laws?
What did priests control?
What are schools, jobs, etc. (The land in gods name)
Who went to school?
What are rich boys?
Boys is not an acceptable answer!
Name two things the chief crop grew.
What are sesame, flax, wheat, fruit trees, date palms, and vegetable?
Where were Ziggurats located, and what were they for?
What is Ziggurats? They were located at the center of the city and they were where the city's chief god stayed.
How did a wheel help Mesopotamian people?
It helped them travel faster and more efficiently and out helped them make pottery.
What is a scribe?
What is a graduated student?
What were lower class jobs?
What are farmers,fishers,and unskilled workers?
Unscramble this word: Rlyabe
(and explain it)
What is a Barley? It was the chief crop.
How many Sumerian gods were there?
3,000
What was the number the Mesopotamian number system revolved around?
60
What did a scribe do?
What is writing?
What were middle class jobs?
What are government officials,shoekeepers,artisians, and skilled workers?
These natural raised areas of soil helped cause Mesopotamia to not flood
What is a levee?
What were priest-kings and how were they selected?
What were is Priest-kings? They were priests selected as kings after war after they died or someone needed to take their place their children would inherit the role.
What is an irrigation system?
What is a system that allows water to travel to soil?
Where did scribes work?
What is a temple,palace,government,army, and public business?
What were upper class houses like?
They were the closest to the ziggurat, two stories high with wooden balconies.