Vocab Vault
What is 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, why were floods seen as significant?
What were messages from the gods? Either rewards or punishments.
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"
What word describes a pyramid-shaped temple tower common in Mesopotamia?
The body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow into:
What is the Persian Gulf?
Who in Mesopotamia would 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 which present-day region?
What is the Middle East?
Law 195 in Document C encourages family obedience, according to Hammurabi, in what way?
What is imposing a severe punishment (cutting off hands) for a son who strikes his father?
Government structure that most Mesopotamian city-states had:
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?
How did Mesopotamians try to please their gods to prevent floods or disasters?
How might Hammurabi have justified harsh punishments, such as death for breaking into a home?
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?