POWER WORDS
A wanderer
nomad
90% of the population were
farmers/enslaved
The two rivers that surround the fertile crescent..
Tigris and Euphrates
The amount of laws written on the stele...
282
This epic poem showed elevated writing skills during this time...
Epic of Gilgamesh
wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets
cuneiform
Priests, officials, and royals were in this group
Nobles
First major civilization of Mesopotamia?
Sumer
Hammurabi was king of which city-state
Babylon
What was the purpose of the Ziggurat?
to worship the gods/goddesses
worshipping multiple gods
polytheistic
These people were fisherman and craftsmen
commoners
built channels and dams
Hammurabi's Code of Laws were most known for being...
strict and harsh
What is irrigation and how did it help the flooding?
they built dams and channels. They preserved water for times where there was a drought, so their crops wouldn't die.
society dominated by men
patriarchal
Which group of people were owned by the palace?
slaves
most prominent building in Sumerian city-states are...
ziggurats
Penalties depended on your social status: true or false?
true
What was the first written language called...
cuneiform
this place was called the Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Which group of people received lesser punishments according to the Code of Hammurabi?
Nobles
Mesopotamia is now known as modern-day...
Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran
Why did Hammurabi write these laws?
to embody moral standards for public interaction in Mesopotamia
Describe how the invention of the wheel changed society...
multiple answers