What is Mesopotamia
Region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the “Cradle of Civilization.”
What is Mesopotamia
Who was at the top of the social pyramid
What is Priests and Kings
Which types of homes had windows
What is higher status homes
What was the first form of writing called?
What is Cuneiform
This king created the worlds first written law codes
Who is Hammurabi
Mesopotamia is located in this modern-day country
Iraq
The Mesopotamian social pyramid had these people at the very bottom.
What are slaves or laborers
True or False: Homes had a running water system for plumbing
False: citizens would use the bathroom on a slanted floor that would lead to the river.
What was the tool that scribes would write with
What is a stylus
The name of the first ever laws were called...
What is Hammurabis Code
The two major rivers that gave Mesopotamia fertile land.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Mesopotamian children who went to school learned mainly to become this profession.
What are scribes
Most Mesopotamian homes had roofs made of this material.
What is mud or reeds.
What shape was Cuneiform written in
What is Wedge shaped
Hammurabis code is famous for this line about justice
What is an Eye for an Eye
The system of government in which each city had its own ruler.
What is a city-state
What did civilians use as currency?
What is Barley and Silver
The center of every Mesopotamian city-state was built around this type of structure.
What is a ziggurat or temple
Writers in Mesopotamia were called what?
What are scribes
The main purpose for Hammurabis code was to what
What is to keep order and justice in the society
The earliest known civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer
Women in Mesopotamia were mostly responsible for these household tasks?
What is cooking, weaving, and caring for children?
Poor families would sleep on...
What is reed mats.
What was the main purpose of Cuneiform
What is to keep records or tracking trade
What would the punishment be if a builder builds a home and it collapses and kills the owner
What is the builder shall be put to death