Mesopatamia
Nickname for Mesopatamia
The Fertile Crescent
Writing system using clay tablets?
Cuneiform
This civilization created the form of our writing our current alphabet is based upon.
Phoenicians
Oldest written story was an epic poem called....
The Epic of Gilgamesh
His code was based on
An _____ for an _____.
eye, eye
The word Mesopotamia translates to ____
land between two rivers
A writer of cuneiform is called a ____
Scribe
Which city did Hammurabi rule over?
Babylon/Babylonia
Which civilization first used iron weapons?
Hittites
What were the codes written on?
Stele (pillar type structure)
Mesopotamia is located between which two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
The process or system of using and moving water to where it is needed?
Irrigation
Which civilization created the wheel?
Sumerians
Hammurabi's Code was meant to protect the _____ from the ______.
How many rules were there?
First civilization in Mesopotamia?
Sumer or Sumerians
Large temples made of bricks for the gods.
Ziggurats
What is Hammurabi's code?
The first written law system
The act of taming animals
Domestication
What were the three categories of laws?
Family, agriculture, theft/professionalism
Second civilization in Mesopotamia?
Babylon or Babylonians
The belief in many gods is called?
Polytheism or polytheistic
Mesopotamia is located in this modern day country
Iraq
Belief in one God
Monotheistic
Which god did he derive his laws from?
Shamash or the God of Justice