Geography
Name two rivers that ran through Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
What is the name for The belief in many gods.
polytheism
What was the first set of written laws called?
Hammurabi's Code
Who was the king who had laws written down for the first time?
Hammurabi
Who was at the lowest level of the social pyramid?
enslaved people
What was the Fertile Crescent
The land between the two rivers: Euphrates and Tigris
What type of Gods did Mesopotamians believe in?
Nature gods
What was the type of writing the Sumerians used called?
Cuneiform
What is a city with its own traditions and its own government and laws called that has agriculture?
city state
Who was at the highest level of the social class?
kings
What is the name of the soil that the flood waters left in order to make farming successful?
silt
Why did their daily life revolve around their nature gods?
Their civilization relied on farming, therefore they had to make sure their gods were never upset.
What kind of genre was the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Fictional story
Who ruled the city states?
kings
What did farming allow people to do now that they didn't have to worry about food?
(People have different skills and different Jobs)
Specialization
a long period of low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
drought
Name the temple where the people left food offerings and worshiped their gods.
ziggurats
Which aspect of our time was invented by the Sumerians?
What job was known for having 12 years of training, and was very important to the government for the role of reading a writing?
Scribes
Instead of physical punishment, what did wealthy people have to do if found guilty in Hammurabi's code?
Pay a fine
System of moving water from rivers and floods to water crops to grow surpluses of food.
Irrigation
What is the Belief in one god called?
Monotheism
What contributions did the Ancient Mesopotamian's have on modern math?
They invented the base 60 system, the 360 degree angle.
Kings were viewed as what?
demigods
People who learned how to write were called what?
scribes