Sumer
Sumer was one of the first civilizations in this region.
What is Mesopotamia?
People in Mesopotamia grew crops like wheat and barely. What were they called?
What are farmers?
Hammurabi was the king of this city.
What is Babylon?
A group of laws for a country or people.
What is a code?
Babylon was an important city in this region
What is Mesopotamia?
Sumerians created the first system of writing called this.
What is cuneiform?
Farmers grew crops like wheat and barely using water from these.
What are rivers?
Hammurabi created a famous set of rules called this.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Water brought to fields for farming.
What is irrigation?
This king made Babylon powerful.
Who is Hammurabi?
This type of building was a temple in Sumerian cities.
What is ziggurat?
People traded goods like grain, cloth, and this valuable metal.
What is cooper.
Hammurabi's Code is one of the earliest written_______________?
What are laws?
A city and the land around it with it's own government?
What is a city-state?
Sumerians cities like Ur and Urk were examples of this type of government?
What is a city-state?
Scribes used clay tabelts and this tool write cuneiform.
This phrase describe Hammurabi's idea of justice: " An eye for an ____________"
What is eye?
A person who writes records and documents.
What is a scribe?
Babylon was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Sumerians used irrigation to help them do this.
What is grow crops (farms)?
Mesopotamia is known as this nickname because it was one of the first civilizations.
Hammurabi's laws were written on this large stone pillar.
What is a stele?
A system that brings water to farms
What is irrigation?
Babylon grew into a large city because of trade and this nearby resource.
What are rivers/water?