The political organization of Mesopotamia that Included the city and surrounding farmland Often functioned independently from one another. Had walls that surrounded them.
What are City-States?
100
The social hierarchy of the Sumerians.
What are the Aristocrats, middle class and slaves?
100
*The belief system in multiple deities (gods)
*many gods of worship
*example: sun god Shamash
What is Polytheism?
100
Controlled flood waters.
What are irrigation canals, ditches, flood gates and small lakes?
200
Geographic description of Mesopotamia.
What is a fertile crescent region on the continent of Asia located between two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
200
*A type of government that is ruled by one:______________ .
This person is the political, religious, economic, and military leader who sets the rules for their city-state.
*What is Monarchy?
*What is a Lugal-gal?
200
*Were the smallest group of people
*Owned land
*Had a lot of power
*The rich people
What are the Aristocrats?
200
*Belief system in one god
*Follow the 10 commandments
*Only one god to be worshiped
*Example: Judaism
What is Monotheism?
200
The Sumerian writing system.
*What is Cuneiform?
300
The two bodies of water located west and south of Mesopotamia.
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf?
300
"An eye for an eye".
What is the law Hammurabi (code of conduct) enforced meaning that the punishment matches the crime.
300
The lower class.
What are slaves that had no money, land, rights, or power?
300
Ziggurats
What is a temple built for the gods.
300
This precious metal brought technological improvements to the lives of the Mesopotamian people.
What is bronze.
400
Natural protective barriers from invasion located to the north and east of Mesopotamia.
What are Taurus and Zagros Mountains?
400
Hammurabi.
**hint**
Who was he?
What did he do?
Who is the King of Babylon who took over all the city-states in Mesopotamia and assumed leadership by cutting off the water supply to the people?
400
The largest group of people.
Who are the middle class or working class?
400
Judaism. (3)
What is the first religion with the belief in God?
What is the Torah?
What is monotheistic?
400
The Sumerians purpose for developing a writing system. (2)
*What is to communicate the history of people?
*What is to let people know the laws?
500
Natural protective barriers from invasion located south of Mesopotamia.
What is the Syrian Desert?
500
The first written set of laws published concerning daily life, business, medicine, property and family.
What is the code of Hammurabi?
500
The working class.
Who are:
*Farmers
*Tradesmen
*Craftsmen
500
Abraham's mission
*Who is a man that received a message from God telling
him there is only one God (covenant)?
*Abraham and his followers left the Sumeria for Egypt because thay only believed in one God.
500
Mesopotamia had many of these world's "firsts". (4)
What are: writing system (cuneiform), clock, calendar, basic tools?