Geography
The land between the two rivers.
Mesopotamia
The people who are known for creating city-states.
Sumerians
A set of official rules.
Code
A system to supply dry land with water.
Irrigation
The number of states there are in the United States.
50
Mountains located to the east of Mesopotamia.
Zagros Mountains
The world's "first" empire.
Akkad
The number of laws in Hammurabi's Code.
282
The right to giver orders and make decisions.
Authority
8
A region known for having land that was good for farming.
Fertile Crescent
Ruled by Hammurabi.
Babylonia
Hammurabi's guiding principle.
An eye for an eye
A person who copies or writes out documents.
Scribe
The name of the dog Mr. MacKenzie dogsits all the time.
Poe
The eastern river of Mesopotamia
Tigris
Known for its military might.
Assyria
The consequence for striking your father.
Hands cut off (or variation)
Writing created by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks.
Cuneiform
The capital of Kuwait.
Kuwait
The present-day country home to most of ancient Mesopotamia.
Iraq
Ruled by Sargon.
Akkad
Who Hammurabi claimed gave him the laws of his code.
Shamash
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.
Ziggurat
Mr. MacKenzie's middle name
Thomas