Inventions
Geography
Vocabulary
Hammurabi
Social Classes
100
wheel
What is an invention that made work easier for Sumerians?
100
fertile crescent
What is the name given to area where Mesopotamia and Sumer were located?
100
city-state
What is the name given to ancient independent cities?
100
levees
What are raised areas of earth used by Sumerians to stop excess water from flooding their crops?
100
True or False
What is a slave in ancient Mesopotamia had more rights than a priest?
200
cuneiform
What is form of writing invented by Sumerians?
200
land between two rivers
What is the Greek meaning of Mesopotamia?
200
monarch
What is a single ruler who holds complete power?
200
Hammurabi's Code
What was the first set of written rules in ancient times?
200
at the outer walls of the city-state
What is where slaves allowed to live in Ancient Mesopotamia?
300
levees
What is an invention that helped to water their crops?
300
modern day Iraq
What is the geographical location of Mesopotamia?
300
irrigation
What is the system inc=vented by Sumerians to carry water from the river to their crops?
300
stele
What is the name given to Statues erected around Babylon by Hammurabi, so people could follow his laws?
300
priest and kings
What are at the top of the Ancient social class
400
potters wheel
What is an invention that helped artisans make bowls and crafts?
400
Tigris and Euphrates
What are the name of the two rivers that supplied water for Ancient Mesopotamia?
400
polytheism
What is the belief in many Gods?
400
Babylon
What is the name of the capital city in Hammurabi's empire?
400
closer to the ziggurat
What is where do wealthy merchants and landowners live?
500
plow
What is an invention used to make farming crops easier?
500
Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf
What are the names of the two bodies of water presently on either side of Iraq?
500
city wall
What is built around Sumerian cities for protection?
500
describe how laws worked according to social classes
What is the higher the class the penalty was simply a fine the lower the class the punishment was more physical.
500
horses
What is why the Sumerians were overtaken by Hammurabi'sm soldiers... they had horses
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