Geography
What was the climate like in Mesopotamia?
What is hot, dry, and arid?
Who is Hammurabi (obviously)?
Who is Sargon's biggest admirer?
Who is Caesar?
What type of math did the Mesopotamians invent?
What is algebra?
What is a monarchy?
What is a form of government where a single person, the monarch, serves as the head of state, typically inheriting the position for life through heredity?
What two rivers were vital to the region of Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
How was someone proven guilty?
What is being thrown into a river and drowning?
What was the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer?
What two things were invented to make farming easier?
What are the plow and irrigation?
Who was at the bottom in social class?
What modern-day nations occupy the territory where Mesopotamia once stood?
What is Iraq and Syria?
What was Hammurabi's Code written on?
What is a large stone pillar?
Why were the Sumerian city-states so vulnerable to attacks?
What is lacking natural defenses and military?
What was the original purpose of cuneiform?
What type of politcal system did Mesopotamia use?
What was the geography in Lower Mesopotamia?
What are rich, fertile plains?
What principle was Hammurabi's Code based on?
What is the "eye for an eye" principle?
Who was the first ruler of Mesopotamia?
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
What was invented to trade with civilizations across the Mediterranian Sea?
What is the sailboat?
What is a theocracy?
What is a system of government in which a priest rules in the name of God or a god?
What two seas does Mesopotamia border?
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf?
How many laws were in the Code of Hammurabi?
What is 282 different laws?
What were the average populations of Mesopotamian city-states?
What is 20,000 - 250,000 people?
What was the wheel's original purpose?
What is making pottery and carrying goods?
In the social hierarchy, who was just below king and priest?