Geography
Another name for the area of the Middle East that included Mesopotamia, because of the fact that much food was grown there.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Hammurabi believed that the punishment should _________ the _________.
What is fit the Crime?
This was the height of the steles discovered from Mesopotamia.
What is 8 feet tall.
This is a size that you can buy soda in.
What is a litre? So stupid.
This is a temple for the people of Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
These two rivers run around the Kingdom of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates ?
This is what would happen to you if you broke into someones house and stole something.
What is spears driven through your chest and stick you to the wall so the whole village could see what pathetic thing you have done?
This was the weight of the steles found in Mesopotamia.
4 tons or 8,000 pounds old man.
He was a famous leader and military man who ruled before Hammurabi.
Who is Sargon?
These are the reasons why ziggurats were built so tall.
So the gods can hear you better. So you can hear the gods better. To escape the floods.
These 2 countries are now where Mesopotamia used to be.
What is Iraq and Iran?
This would happen to a woman who was married , when she would smooch up on someone she was not married to.
What is bound up and thrown into the river?
This was inscribed on the steles found in Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's code?
This leader believed in "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth".
Who is Hammurabi?
(You must sing this answer) Sing the name of one of the rivers that ran through Mesopotamia.
The EUUUUUUUU-Phrates River !!
This hot and dry climate is a feature of this land form.
What is a dessert?
This would happen to you if you were caught stealing.
What is chop off a finger or a hand?
This is the museum in Paris, France where the only remaining stele from Mesopotamia is on display.
What is the Louvre?
This God told Hammurabi that he was supposed to lead the people of Mesopotamia.
Who is Shamash?
This is the number of years that Hammurabi was the ruler of Mesopotamia.
42 or 43 is acceptable.
Most people in Mesopotamia used this to bathe in.
What is a river? And what is this floating in my drinking water?
Basically, Hammurabi believed his laws would protect these people.
The widowed, weak and the orphans.
Emojis are the same as what form of writing?
What is cuneiform?
Hammurabi believed he got his power from these people.
Who are the gods?
The Mesopotamians were monotheistic. True or False.
What is false, you grumpy old man?