Daily Life in Sumer
These were centers for trade, government, and religion, and the area around the ziggurat is where much of this happened.
Sumerian city or Sumerian city-state
Name at least 3 duties officials had.
governed day to day activities, controlled surpluses of food, collected taxes, settled disputes, took part in making new laws, oversaw the building of temples and monuments, took away people's rights to their prop
gods
deities
What ruler created the world's first empire?
Sargon
Who was the air god?
Enlil
Sumerian city-states relied on the work of these people. Name all 3.
farmers, herders, and fishers
How many laws did Ur-Nammu order to have carved into stone?
seven
to take over
conquer
Urukagina was the ruler of what city-state?
Lagash
Enki was the god of what two things?
water and wisdom
Often times, what was housing like for craftworkers and their families?
they lived above or behind their shops
Hammurabi was the king of which city-state?
Babylon
ruler of an empire
Sargon was also the first ruler to have this.
A standing army
own property, run businesses, divorce cruel husbands, and train to be priestesses and scribes.
Farmers produced more than enough food or surplus of food for people in the city.
Code of Hammurabi consisted of how many laws? Some laws followed this idea.
282 laws; eye for an eye.
Define standing army
a permanent army of paid soldiers
After the fall of the Babylonian empire, this group of people gained control of the region and had mastery over powerful new weapons.
Assyrians
Assyrians learned to make iron weapons and war chariots from these people?
Hittites
To make bronze, Sumerian metalworkers melted tin and copper inside this?
Ur-Nammu's laws were written in the form of these statements.
if-then
Define tribute
a required payment from one ruler to a more powerful ruler.
Name 6 Assyrian achievements
iron weapons, war chariots, lance, battering ram, paved roads, postal system, magnifying glass, libraries, locks with keys.
Which class was the largest in Sumerian society and what people made up that class?
middle class: merchants, scribes, craftworkers, and farmers.