Georgraphy of Mesopotamia
Zagros and Taurus Mountains
What is form protection barriers?
A group of individuals living and working together for the purpose of creating an organized society?
What is a civilization?
Invented the wheel
Who are the Sumerians?
If a son hits his father
What is his hand should be cut off?
The belief in multiple gods.
What is polytheistic?
The land between two rivers?
What is Meosopotamia?
A large town at the center of the civilization located near major source of transportation with a high population and where important buildings are located.
What are cities?
Invented the calendar to know when the rivers would flood?
Who are the Babylonians?
Anyone steals for the property of the temple or court.
What is put to death?
At the bottom of the social hierarchy in Mesopotamia?
Who are slaves?
Babylon, Sumer, and Ur.
What are three kingdoms in Mesopotamia?
Creates and keeps order in society through laws. The government's responsibility is also to provide protection through the military.
What are governments and laws?
The first form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
A man knocks out the teeth of his equal
What is his teeth shall me knocked out?
The fertile deposit left behind after flooding.
What is silt?
Provided protection to the east of Mesopotamia.
What ar the Syrian and Arabian Deserts?
The writers in early civilizations.
What are scribes?
Trade and War.
What two inventions are the Assyrians known for?
Three reasons you are put to death.
What robbery, stealing from the temple, and building a house that kills the owner?
Division of Labor and Social Hierarchy
What are the two systems that created order in Mesopotamia?
The life sources of Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Inventions created to make the civilization more advanced.
What are technology and Public Works?
Creating more than you need.
What is a Surplus?
Codes of law defining rules of laws defining rules and behaviors within society.
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
System to provide water in order to farm
What is irrigation?