Vocabulary
"Eye for an eye" is also known as who's Laws?
Code of Hammurabi
What was the center of Sumerian life (2)?
Ziggurats and Courts
Top Crop in Sumer is?
Barley
what are the 2 rivers surrounding Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Lower class boys and girls received what?
No Education
How did they control the rivers? (2)
Dikes, Dams, Irrigation, Levees
These people were at the top of Sumerian society
priest-kings and their family
What invention allowed carts to go further?
The Wheel
Mesopotamia is MOSTLY in what modern day country?
Iraq
What term means extra crops?
Surplus
What does Mesopotamia mean? (2)
Land between two rivers
fertile Crescent
cradle of civilization
What was the purpose of a ziggurat? (2)
-worship gods
-conduct trade
-courts, government
-Schools
name for a skilled worker
artisan
This is the name of a legendary priest king who searches for a way to live forever
Gilgamesh
The middle class included...(2)
Artisans, government officials, farmers, merchants
A professional writer
scribe
These were natural barriers created by floods along the rivers
Levees
the Sumerians came up with a _____ ______ based off 60.
number system?
Hammurabi's Regin is AKA
The Golden Age of Babylon
traits passed down from parent to child
heriditary
Nutrient Rich soil
Silt
Why was cuneiform invented?
to keep a record of trading with other city-states
About how many people can read cuneiform today?
250
An improvement or a change
Reform
Ziggurat
Polytheistic means what?
Belief in more than one god
What type of trade did the Sumerians use?
Bartering
The world's earliest known civilization
Sumer
a period of rule
reign
This invention made farming easier and created a surplus of food
plow