Mesopotamia 1
The collection of 282 laws that dealt with almost every aspect of daily life.
What is "The Code of Hammurabi?"
An ____________ is a conquered land of many people and places governed by one rule, called an ___________.
(Two answers required)
What is an empire and emperor?
Sumerian farms produced enough food to create a _____________ of food.
What is surplus?
Early Sumerian writing was recorded on this item?
What is a clay tablet?
What is a city-state?
The government was a _____________, in which one person had complete _____________, or right, to rule in peacetime and lead soldiers to war in wartime. (two answers needed)
What is monarchy and authority?
What is a ziggurat?
Sumer was known for writing the first story of ____________.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A centralized society that depends on a stable food supply and division of labor.
What is a civilization?
When farm land and crops are extremely dry from lack of rain.
What is a drought?
Farmers developed this type of system to move water to dry areas of farmland.
What is irrigation?
Sumerians developed this type of writing that looks like wedge shapes.
What is cuneiform?
This river is a slow, winding river with few tributaries or branches.
What is the Euphrates?
These rivers enriched the soil, as they left a layer of silt when their banks overflowed.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
This type of soil and twin waterways combined to provide the setting for early urban, or city growth in southwestern Asia.
What is fertile?
Artisans, farmers and fishers were in this class.
What is middle class?
These people performed rituals to the Gods and placed food at the top of a temple known as a Ziggurat.
Who are priests?
Enslaved people were in this class.
What is lower class?
Kings, priests, and officials were in this class.
What is upper class?
This great invention was originally used for irrigation, milling and pottery making.
What is the wheel?