Inventions
What were the wheels first used for?
Pottery making
What was the highest social class?
Priests and Kings
Who created Hamnurabi's code of laws
Hamnurabi
Who invented all the laws in Hammurabi's code
Hammurabis
What was the land between the two Rivers?
Mesapotamia
What did they do when they were bored?
Royal game of Ur and Checkers
What was the lowest class in Mesopotamia?
Farmers and servents
What was the Mesopotamian temple called?
ziggurat
How many laws were in Hammurabi's Code?
282
What was one of the landforms that protected them?
Deserts/cataracts
What was used to pull the plow?
A Oxen
What was their political system?
Theocracy and monarchy
Who created the first centralized government?
Sargon
Name 1 of Hammurabi's codes
A eye for an eye
What was the Sea west of Mesopotamia?
Mediterranean Sea
What invention made the soil fertile enough to grow crops?
Irrigation
What was a big part of their economy?
Farming and trading
Who is the ruler who combined Upper and Lower Egypt?
Menes
Who did Hammurabi's codes affect the most?
Lower class people
What is north of the Red Sea?
The Nile River
How many days we're in each month of the Lunar Calendar?
29 or 30
What would priests do in the government?
Lead armies and control the people
Who was the first female ruler of Mesopotamia?
Kubaba
What was one of Hammurabi's codes that affected women unfairly?
If a woman were caught cheating, she would be drowned in a river.
What was the Gulf called?
The Persian gulf