Vocabulary
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
Mesopotamia is between these two rivers.
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
This city was the center of Hammurabi's Empire.
What is Babylon?
This is where most Jewish people live outside Israel.
What is the United States?
This is a code of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This is a building that serves as a temple.
What is Ziggurat?
The conquest of Sumer was due to this.
What is fighting among the city-states?
Not all members of society were treated equally under this.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
Cylinder seals are an example of this
What is Sumerian art?
This is a city and the surrounding land it controls.
What is a city-state?
Sumer was important because of this.
What is its the world's first civilization?
This was the purpose of Hammurabi's Code.
What is to make sure everyone knew the law?
Jews and Christians both believe that these were given to Moses by God.
What is the Ten Commandments?
This was the writing system in Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
This was a way of getting water to crops.
What is irrigation?
Sumerian sculptures were different from earlier ones for this reason.
What is they were realistic statues of humans?
This was the pattern of Hammurabi's Code
What is offense and punishment?
A common set of values and beliefs shared by Judaism and Christianity are known as this.
What is Judeo-Christian Traditions?
This is the belief in more than one god or goddess.
What is polytheism?
A payment to show loyalty to a stronger power.
What is tribute?
He was the king of the Akkadians.
Who is Sargon?
These were the largest 3 groups in the Babylonian Empire.
What are artisans, farmers, and slaves?
These were the communities of Jews living outside their homeland.
What is the Jewish Diaspora?
What are Mesopotamian contributions?