Vocab
Worshipping gods that celebrate the sun, moon, stars, and animals is an example of which type of religion?
What is polytheism?
What is an area of flat land called?
Plain
Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
Who is Hammurabi.
A group of people who have a complex and organized society within a culture.
Civilization
A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions is called a what?
city-state
What is the climate like in Mesopotamia?
hot and dry
A professional writer in Mesopotamia was called a what?
scribe
In Great Britain, the same family ruled over the country for over 100 years. This is an example of?
A dynasty.
A skillful craftsman that builds things from hand is called a what?
Artisian
Name the two life-giving rivers in the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris and Euphrates
The form of writing in Mesopotamia that used lines and wedges with a wooden stylist was called what?
Cuneiform
In the United States groups of people are divided into "upper, middle and lower" groups. These are examples of?
Social classes
Why did ancient Mesopotamia begin in the Fertile Crescent?
The fertile soil to grow crops between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Farmers dug trenches and ditches to bring water to their fields. This was called what?
Irrigation
The set of 282 laws based on an eye for and eye was called what?
Code of Hammurabi or Hammurabi's Code
Which of the 6 aspects of civilization would food, dance, and pottery best describe?
Art
This was made of mud bricks, and were built tall to connect to the heavens to Mesopotamian civilizations.
A ziggurat
Describe 2 geographical challenges of living in Mesopotamia.
Climate, lack of resources, etc.
Provide an example of the law "an eye for an eye."
Known as "an eye for an eye" if someone does something to you, you can do it back to them!
What are 3 things that make up a civilization? There are more than three but give three things.
Cities, government, art, social divisions, religion, and writing