Key Terms
the idea that all members of a society must obey the law
What is rule of law?
this position was at the top of the social hierarchy
What is King?
They were the ones that ruled over Sumer, name these two social class groups
What are kings and priests?
What is assembly?
it means the "land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
whom the ziggurat was dedicated to and worshipped by the people
What is a god?
soldiers who fight while riding horses
What is cavalry?
you attached a wheel to this invention to make farming much easier
What is the plow?
The first written language on which Sumerian culture was able to record was called this
What is cuneiform?
This ruler was able to unite Sumer and northern Mesopotamia into a new Babylonian Empire, also created his own law code
Who is Hammurabi?
the spreading of cultural traits from one culture to another
What is cultural diffusion?
A disadvantage of this natural occurrence is that it would sometimes wash away the crops
What is flood?
a state containing several countries or territories
What is an emipre?
These are what every civilization needs to grow and the reason why land was chosen for settlement
What are natural resources?
he is the builder of the world's first empire, accomplished by conquering many city-states
Who is Sargon?
Sumer, Babylon, Ur, and Uruk were are examples of this
What are city-states?
Hammurabi's law codes resulted mainly with this consequence
What is death?