Mesopotamia
These are the two names of the rivers where Mesopotamia is located around.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mesopotamia ex. wild grains, cereals, development of beer brewing practices.
What is agriculture and food surplus?
If a son hits his father...
Then his hands shall be cut off.
This is a person who works as a professional writer for the government or for a business
This is the nickname given for the region where Mesopotamia is, it is known for having good soil for growing crops.
Mesopotamian capitals like Ur, Uruk, Babylon, and Sumer.
If a robber steals a persons thing and is not caught, and the person reports what is stolen from him...
Then the community will have to pay for what was taken from their neighbor.
This is a waterway made by people to control water and irrigate farms
This is the name for the religious buildings in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamian populations of government officials, priests, farmers, peasants, and enslaved people.
What are social classes?
This is the complex society characteristic that is very evident from the unfair punishments for physical safety laws.
What are social classes?
This is the system of ancient writing invented in Sumer; the name comes from the wedge shape of a stylus pressed into wet clay
What is cuneiform?
This is the name for the geographic region where Mesopotamia is located.
What is the Middle East?
Mesopotamian ex. invention of the wheel, improved plows, and development of iron weapons.
What is achievements in technology, art, and architecture?
This is the punishment for a doctor who fails the eye surgery or kills the patient during a procedure.
What is cutting off hands?
This is a collection of ancient stories that help explain the world
What is mythology?
This is the name of a literary work written in Mesopotamia about one of their famous kings.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Mesopotamian ex. People believed in patron gods and goddesses, later people developed monotheistic belief (only believing in one God)
What are systems of religion, government, and education?
This is the name of the Mesopotamian Sun God who is carved next to Hammurabi at the top of the stele.
Who is Shamesh?
This is a god or goddess adopted and honored by a community; every Sumerian city-state had its own
What is a patron God?