Geography
This pair of rivers flowed through the heart of ancient Mesopotamia.
the Tigris River and the Euphrates Rivers
This early civilization developed in southern Mesopotamia.
Sumer (the Sumerians)
Sumerians pressed wedge-shaped marks into clay to write this system.
Cuneiform
This Babylonian king is famous for a set of written laws.
Hammurabi
The belief in many gods.
Polytheism
This name means "land between the rivers."
Mesopotamia
A city and farmland around it, governed as an independent unit, was called this.
City-state
This helped farmers bring water from rivers to their fields.
canals
This ancient collection of rules is known best for its laws and punishments.
Hammurabi's Code
This tall stepped temple stood at the center of many Mesopotamian cities.
Ziggurat
Seasonal floods left this useful material on farmland near the rivers.
topsoil
Sumerian stories about gods that explain people's beliefs
myths p.38
This powerful weapon has a wooden beam mounted on wheels.
Battering ram
Give three examples of things scribes would record that would help keep law and order in ancient civilizations:
records of farm animals/ownership, recorded sales and trades, tax payments, gifts for the gods, marriages, deaths. (other choices on page 49)
the Mesopotamians used this material to make many everyday writing surfaces.
Clay
This large region, whose name means "fertile cresent", included much of Mesopotamia.
Southwest Asia or the Cradle of Civilization
This skilled worker made a particular product or provided a specialized service, such as pottery or metalwork
artisan
Draw the Sumerian cuneiform for Sun
see page 51
This idea is often used to describe Hammurabi's punishments where the punishment matches the crime!
Eye for an Eye!
This trained writer kept record and copied important texts.
Scribes
The center of the Babylonian Empire. A city of great wealth and luxury.
Babylon
Sumerian cities could have different customs and rules because each city-state governed itself instead of being ruled by this single, unified government.
Empire
This invention made travel easier for Caravans.
roads
What is the significance of Hammurabi's Code on society today?
Hammurabi's Code is the first written evidence of laws.
Give two examples of items that could be purchased at bazaars:
cloth, spices- Other reasonable answers acceptable as well.