Geography of Mesopotamia
Iraq
Starting in 3500 B.C.E., the Sumerian Empire would be the one to create this first type of writing system found on clay tablets.
Cuneiform
If you grow an excess amount of food, you are creating this type.
Stable Food Supply
"If a nobleman has knocked out another nobleman's tooth, his tooth shall also be knocked out" is under which category of the Hammurabi Code.
Nobleman and Slave involved in a Brawl
King Sargon established this capital for the Akkadian Empire.
Agade
These two rivers gave rise to Mesopotamia's first civilization.
Tigris and Euphrates River
This Empire conquered the Sumerians in 2300 BCE and maintained their writing system.
Akkadian Empire
Worshipping many gods is this type.
Religion
"If a wild bull has gored and killed a person, that case has no remedy" is an example of the Code of Hammurabi.
Woman seeking damages for her father's wrongful death.
Under King Hammurabi, he was careful to properly maintain this type of invention that was created by the Sumerians.
Irrigation systems
This mountain would often rain, leading to floods for the farmers.
Zagros Mountains.
King Hammurabi would overthrow the Akkadian Empire, making for himself this new empire.
Babylonian Empire
Arts, Music, Writing, and Inventions help to make an empire thrive is this.
Culture
"If a man has put away (divorced) his wife who has not borne him children, he shall return her dowry and pay her the marriage portion that she brought from her father's house."
Man seeking a divorce without financial settlement
Materials brought from this country helped the Babylonian Empire to grow and prosper.
Egypt
Attacking neighboring communities would often be a reason for getting this major natural resource.
Water
This empire was to the north of the Babylonian Empire and conquered the Babylonians as their army was both feared and cruel.
Akkadian Empire
Social Structure
"If a builder constructed a house for a nobleman but did not make his work strong and the house that he built collapsed and caused the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death."
Builder Accused of Faulty Construction
Under the Assyrian religion, they believed that these types of monarchs were special beings as they built beautiful places to honor them.
Kings
Communities would grow in population which would lead to the creation of this type of town.
City-States
This empire is a continuation of the philosophy and style that was once under Hammurabi.
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Systems such as Democracy, Monarchy, and Bureaucracy as types of this.
Government
"If a doctor makes a large incision with an operating knife and cures a commoner's disease, or if he opens a tumor over the commoner's eye with an operating knife and saves the eye, he shall receive 5 shekels of silver."
Under this king, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was able to rebuild ziggurats and this ancient wonder of the world.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon