Rulers and Laws
Akkadian ruler whose empire lasted over 200 years
Who is Sargon?
The most important Sumerian invention:
What is writing?
The kind of job that only boys from wealthy families could have.
What is a scribe?
A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
Flooding often swept away towns and crops but left this fertile thing behind.
What is silt?
Ruler with an eye for an eye philosophy.
Who was Hammurabi?
How bowls and jars where shaped from clay.
What is a potters wheel?
The way a person became a slave.
A large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler
What is an empire?
Mesopotamia was the land between the rivers. What rivers was it between?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
Assyrian kings had a large empire to rule. They decided to divide their kingdom into these:
What are provinces?
The two ways Mesopotamians could control flooding.
What are dams and levees?
Sumer's largest social group.
What is the middle class?
A person who studies planets and stars.
What is an astronomer?
What is irrigation?
They hated their harsh new rulers and overthrew them when they were arguing among themselves.
Who are the Chaldeans?
What was developed by the cycles of the moon?
The 12 month calendar
A scribe would often work for this member of the upper class.
What is a government official?
Tradesmen who traveled in numbers for safety.
What are caravans?
One of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
What are Greece and Rome.
What is geometry?
Though Mesopotamian women had few civil rights some were like Paris Hilton or Ariana Huffington.
What is a business owner?
There are only two things certain in life death and taxes. For the people conquered by the Assyrians there were three things.
What are death, taxes, and tribute?
The story of a harsh ruler who changes his way when he meets a new friend. He suffers many losses and must confront his biggest fear which is death. It's a pretty epic story!
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?