Social class
slaves
What is the lowest social class.
the Akkadian lanugage
What language was the code written in?
Silt
Fine particles of rock.
Civilizations have a complex organization, or social levels.
What is social structure.
Fought between Sumer and Elam.
Who fought the first war.
kings
what is the highest social class?
king Hammurabi and shamash.
who are the two figures on the top of the stone
Ziggurat
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top.
Directed peoples behavior and made life orderly.
what is goverment?
They carried weapons,soldiers,archers and generals.
What was carried in wagons?
priests
what was the class just below kings?
issues of irrigation,agriculture and family life.
what did the laws relate to?
Technology
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
The system that gods had power.
what Religon?
Donkeys were used to pull this.
What animals were used to pull wagons?
artisans and scribes
who were in the middle class?
prologue,laws,epilogue
what are the three sections off the code.
Economy
The way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet people’s needs and wants.
Wheels,Irragation and plows were all advances.
What is technology?
crops,land and animals.
What was the source of the conflicts in sumer?
farmers and skilled laborers
who is one social class above slaves?
There were approximately 300 written.
How many laws did Hammurabi's code include?
Polytheism
The belief that there are many gods.
An early form of writing that uses pictographs.
What is cuneiform?
Murals and other artwork.
What primary source of primary infornation?