Vocab Vault
The term for a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent country:
What is a city-state?
2 rivers crucial to Mesopotamian civilization:
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
In Mesopotamian religion, floods were seen as "this" from the Gods:
- Messages from the Gods?
- Punishments from the Gods?
Hammurabi claims to have received the laws from here:
Who is Shamash, the God of Justice?
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is "Land between two rivers"
A word describes a pyramid-shaped temple tower common in Mesopotamia:
What is a ziggurat?
The body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow into:
What is the Persian Gulf?
They justify their power and authority by saying they were chosen by the gods:
Who were the Kings? / King Hammurabi
In Document B, Hammurabi states that the purpose of his laws is to:
What is to protect the people, including widows and orphans?
The oldest known tale from Mesopotamia:
What is "The Epic of Gilgamesh"
Someone who buys and sells goods for profit.
What is a merchant?
The oasis of fertile land in the midst of desert:
What is the fertile crescent?
Someone who could read and write, often recording transactions and keeping records:
Who was a scribe?
DAILY DOUBLE
In Document C, what crime would result in “bind them and cast them into the water”?
What is a wife cheating on their partner?
Buildings were made of these in their civilization:
What are mud bricks?
DAILY DOUBLE
Belief in many gods; Mesopotamians worshiped multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
Mesopotamia was one of the first places where complex urban centers and organized societies developed, earning this name:
What is the "Cradle of Civilization"?
Mesopotamia is located in this present-day region:
What is the Middle East?
Law 195 in Document C encourages family obedience, according to Hammurabi, by doing this:
What is cutting their hands off?
With kings in charge, Mesopotamia followed this government structure/system:
What is a Monarchy?
The artificial watering of land, crucial for farming in the dry Mesopotamian region:
What is irrigation?
The first city-state of Mesopotamia:
What is Sumer?
Mesopotamians tried to please their gods to prevent floods/disasters by providing:
What are sacrifices?
Hammurabi justifies harsh punishments, such as death for breaking into a home BECAUSE:
What would deter people from committing crimes in society?
Innovation in timekeeping, still used today, that originated in Mesopotamia:
What is the 60-second minute, 60-minute hour?