Code of Hammurabi
The name of the king who ruled Babylonia for 42 years and developed written laws or codes for the city-state.
Who is King Hammurabi?
The term that can be applied to both animals and plants. This term is what humans learned and resulted in more sedentary living.
What is a domesticate or domestication?
This place is known at the birthplace of civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
The continent on which Egypt is located.
What is Africa?
Nomadic peoples were primarily prevalent/present in this era.
What is the Paleolithic Age/Era?
This quote about balance was said thousands of years ago.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
The term meaning Before Christ or Before Common Era indicating the evolution of time tracking for humans.
What is B.C. or B.C.E?
Ancient Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The name of the pictorial writing in Egypt
What are hieroglyphs?
The development of sedentary civilizations occurred during this period.
What is the Neolithic Era?
The number of codes/laws there are in the Code of Hammurabi.
What is between 281-282?
The type of source the Code of Hammurabi is. (primary or secondary?)
What is a primary source?
The present-day name of the country where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq? What is Kuwait? What is Syria?
The name of the river on which ancient Egypt was developed.
What is the Nile River?
This is how people got their food in the Neolithic Age.
What is farming and domesticating animals?
The reason King Hammurabi created the codes/laws.
What is "because he felt that it was his purpose"? What is "to destroy the wicked and the evil?" What is "because the gods called upon him to do so? What is to ensure there remains a balance in society?
There are seven of them. All seven are large bodies of land typically divided into smaller entities. All seven are usually surrounded by water.
What is a continent?
The written language created by ancient Mesopotamians, specifically Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
The year in which ancient Egyptians emerged.
When is as early as 5000 BCE?
During this period, societies were more egalitarian.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
These are punishments for many of the laws analyzed.
This vocabulary term is usually a simple object showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object. One example is a spear used to hunt animals.
What is an artifact?
These people developed the potter's wheel and studied early astronomy, mathematics, literature, and religious thought.
Who are the Sumerians? (Mesopotamians)
The direction in which the Nile river flows
What is from the South to the North?
The estimated starting period of the Neolithic Era/Age.
What is 10,000 BCE?