Vocabulary
A writing that uses wedge shaped characters.
What is cuneiform?
The goddess of love.
Who is Ishtar?
This was one of sumerians greatest inventions.
What is the wheel?
There are about 300 codes.
What is Hammurabi's code?
That is in between the Tigris and Euphrates river.
What is Mesopotamia?
A person that writes.
What is a scribe?
He died from a sickness.
Who is Endiku?
Mesopotamia were the first to make these in big quantities.
What are bricks?
If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, the builder shall be put to death.
What is code 229?
The 4 seas are the Black, Red, Caspian, and the Mediterranean sea.
What are the 4 seas in Mesopotamia?
Fine particles of a rock.
what is silt?
They are Gilgamesh's sidekick.
Who is Endiku?
A refreshment that sumerians enjoyed after a hard day at work.
What is beer?
If the woman is not innocent, leaves her husband, ruins her house, neglecting her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water.
What is code 143?
They received water before a different city.
What is Kish?
A way to supply land with water.
What is irrigation?
He wants to be famous
Who is Gilgamesh?
This was something that could carry objects and wheel them.
What is a Chariot?
If a man be in debt and is unable to pay his creditors, he shall sell his wife, son, or daughter, or bind them over to service. For three years they shall work in the houses of their purchaser or master in the fourth year they shall be given their freedom.
What is code 117?
This was the first ever city state in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
A symbol that stands for an object.
What is a pictograph?
The monster Endiku and Gilgamesh slayed.
Who is Humbaba?
This was a key transportation method and still is.
What is sailing.
If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.
What is code 2?
They start at the Taurus Mountains.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates river?