Hammurabi
How many laws were in the the Hammurabi code of laws?
282
This religion believes that there is only ONE god?
Monothiestic or Monotheism
Sumerians was the first to make this metal
Bronze
_______was the first known civilization to Mesopotamia
Sumerian/Sumer
How tall was the Hammurabi Code steel slab
7feet
This religion believes that there is MORE than one god?
Polytheistic or polytheism
What farming achievement helped collect and send rain directly to the farms
Irrigation canals
______is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory
City state
True of False:
Offenses against someone of the same class or a higher class had stronger punishments than crimes against someone of a lesser class
True
Is a state containing several countries or territories
Empire
Cuneiform was a triangular shaped symbols that represented what?
Words, ideas or sounds
Larger cities had temples known as_____
Ziggurats
What city became the center of Hammurabi’s Mesopotamian empire?
Babylon
The social class level ABOVE the slaves
Peasant farmers
What achievement helped with carrying heavy loads
Wheeled cart
Mesopotmia is located Between the _____and Euphrates Rivers
Tigris
It was the first attempt to organize and write down all the laws that governed a society.
Hammurabi Code
Who allowed the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple?
Cyrus the Great
Sumerians mathematical achievement
Dividing an hour into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds
Merchants, priest, scribes, and ______
Artisans