Geography
Modern Day Mesopotamia
Iraq
First known work of literature or poem
Epic of Gilgamesh
Were the only ones able to read or write, some served as priests
Scribes
Signs to represent words or ideas
Ideograms
Priests would watch the constellations in the sky to know which month it is to see when it floods
The Zodiacs
The origin and the meaning of "Mesopotamia"
1. Greek origin
2. The land between the two rivers
Oldest system of writing. What is the meaning?
Cuneiform, wedge-shaped writing
The laboring lower-class of the Kingdom
The Commoners
Picture to show meaning
Pictograms
Were considered "Divinely ordained humans", literal "gods on earth"
The Kings
The 2 rivers that make up Mesopotamia
The Tigris and Euphrates
Oldest form of legal document
Code of Hammurabi
Produced the wealth that made civilization possible
Merchants and Artisans
Signs that represent sounds
Phonetics
6 main components that makes Mesopotamia the first civilization
Government, cities, infrastructure, domestication of animals, laws, and agriculture
A geographic condition that occurs often in Mesopotamia
Catastrophic flooding of the rivers
Revolutionary item still used today
The wheel
Had no rights, owned by the wealthy, some even worked in the temples, the palace, or on farms
The Slaves
Mr. Herrera's favorite class period
He doesn't have one
Material Cuneiform was written on
Clay tablets
City located in the North of Mesopotamia
City located in the South of Mesopotamia
North: Akkad
South: Sumer
Devised time based on cycles of the moon
A calendar
Controlled the distribution of land to farmers and crops to workers. Also, considered the "doctors of the time"
The Priests
Philosopher that said, "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world."
Socrates
Ancient Mesopotamian tool to plant crops
The plow
Major trading and political center
City of Assur
Temples dedicated to the God of the city
Ziggurats
Two ways become a slave
1. Captured in war
2. Owed money
Established capital at Akkad, leading of the Akkadians
Sargon the Great
Number of law on the Code of Hammurabi
282