Social Ranking
Hammurabi and the Law Code
Education
Rivers/Importance
Misc.
100
What were the four categories?
Nobles, clients, commoners, and slaves
100
How was punishment decided?
By social ranking.
100
Who could go to school?
Wealthy males
100
What are the two rivers called?
Euphrates and the Tigris.
100
Where is Mesopotamia located?
Between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
200
What are the ways a slave could become a slave?
Born into slavery, prisoners of war, or criminals
200
Who is Hammurabi?
The king of the Babylonians, created the law code.
200
What was their language/writing system called?
cuneiform.
200
Why were the rivers important to the creation of the Mesopotamian civilization?
They isolated the cites creating independent city-states and making communication difficult.
200
Who created the first cities in Mesopotamia and where?
The sumerians created the first cities in the southern part.
300
What were commoners?
They were independent, free and owned their own land.
300
Give an example of a law.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
300
What is a cuneiform?
A complex system of symbols.
300
Why did they need irrigation?
The arid climate there made farming near impossible without it.
300
What does Mesopotamia literally translate to?
The land between the rivers.
400
Where were clients placed on the social ranking pyramid?
Clients were under nobles and above commoners.
400
What happened if a noble hurt a slaves eye?
He could pay a fine instead of having to give up his own eye.
400
Draw mountain women (slave women) on the board.
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400
What did the rivers supply?
Fish, water, reed and clay.
400
What is often linked to Mesopotamia?
Western civilization is often linked to mesopotamia.
500
True or False. The order is Nobles, commoners, clients, and slaves.
False. The order is nobles, clients, commoners, and slaves
500
Choose to either make up your own law that would fit in his law code or tell your opinion on his law code.
........:)
500
What happened if you disobeyed the schools laws?
You would get caned.
500
What city created irrigation?
Sumer.
500
What year were scribal schools all over Sumer?
2500 BCE
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