Geography
Farming
Hammurabi
Government
Resources
100
Name the two most important geographic features of the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The economy of early cities was based mainly on this.
What is farming?
100
Hammurabi's Code was the first set of these.
What are written laws or rules?
100
Cities needed more government than small villages because...
What is more people requires more management?
100
Other than rivers, what did the Fertile Crescent have that allowed people to live there?
What is fertile soil?
200
The rich, black soil brought down from the mountains.
What is silt?
200
Name two of the three important resources needed to create a food surplus.
What are fertile soil, fresh water, and seeds?
200
Hammurabi's Code applied to what people in society?
Who are everyone?
200
These people became the first Sumerian kings.
Who are the military leaders?
200
The Phoenicians sailed and traded on this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
This force of nature destroyed homes and villages but also brought fertile soil to the land.
What is flooding?
300
Having more food than you can eat.
What is a surplus
300
Hammurabi's Code requires what punishment for poking out the eye of another person?
What is the removal of an eye (An eye for an eye)?
300
The kings needed the support of this group who was in charge of talking to the gods.
What is the priests?
300
This river formed the norther border of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
400
Most early civilizations began near these geographic features.
What are rivers or river valleys?
400
The process of planting seeds with the intention of harvesting the food.
What is farming?
400
Hammurabi's Code requires what punishment for a boy who strikes his father?
What is losing a hand?
400
Name one of the two groups of "Conquerors" that took over Mesopotamia.
What is the Assyrians or the Persians?
400
This river formed the southern boundary of Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
500
The meaning of the word "Mesopotamia."
What is the land between two rivers.
500
These ditches were dug by hand to allow control of water for watering crops.
What are irrigation canals?
500
Hammurabi's Code had different punishments for the same crime for people based on their social structure, called what?
What is social hierarchy?
500
What Babylonian king created rules that everyone had to follow?
What is King Hammurabi?
500
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flowed into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
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