Vocabulary
Agricultural area with a walled city in the center of the region?
City-State
Mesopotamia is known as_______
The land between two rivers
Hammurabi's Code was engraved on what?
A stele
The Epic of ______ was the first written piece of literature?
Gilgamesh
Name five inventions that came our of Mesopotamia
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A temple where Sumerians believed gods and goddesses ruled the city?
Ziggurat
Which TWO major rivers formed The Fertile Crescent?
The Tigris and The Euphrates
How many laws are in Hammurabi's Code?
282
In an epic, the plot centers around a _______
Hero that is usually a demi-god
This type of calendar was invented by Mesopotamians
Lunar
Worshiping multiple gods or deities
Polytheistic
An area of land in the Middle East, located around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
The Fertile Crescent
Who supposedly instructed Hammurabi to make his famous code of laws?
Shamash
Describe the setting in an Epic
The writing system used by Mesopotamians
Cuneiform
A social order ruled by a king/queen
Monarchy
The Tigris and Euphrates both flow into which sea?
The Persian Gulf
Hammurabi's Code is based upon what type of justice?
An eye for an eye
An over-exaggeration that is used through epics is called what?
Hyperbole-Superlatives
Who was at the top of the social pyramid in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Kings
Founded by Hammurabi in 1792 BCE. They were the first to form an empire that would encompass all of Mesopotamia?
Babylonian Empire
What annual occurrence made the land around the Tigris and Euphrates ideal for farming?
The flooding AND receding of the rivers
Give a real world example of how our society would be different if we implemented Hammurabi's strict set of laws
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What a narrator knows all, even what the characters are thinking and feeling, it is known as what type of point of view?
Third-Person Omniscient
The Epic of Gilgamesh took place in the city of _____
Uruk