Inventions
Their form of writing
What is Cuneiform?
Lowest ranked in social structure
What is slaves or prisoners of war?
Hammurabi's Significance
Definition of Hammurabi's code
What is A code created by Hammurabi consisting of many laws for punishment of crimes?
The two rivers beside mesopotamia
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
Define a Ziggurat
What is A massive temple used for worship with a shrine at the top?
Type of government Sumer had
What is no central government?
First ruler to centralize government
Who is Sargon?
What is "An eye for an eye"?
Location of modern day mesopotamia
What is Iraq, Syria?
Define Irrigation
What is the building of canals to redirect water to crops?
Government of City-states
What is dual government?
Built the first empire
Who is Sargon?
Benefits from this law
What is Wealthy and Male?
Climate in Mesopotamia
What is Dry and hot?
Define Cylindar Seal
What is stones engraved with pictographs to sign something or claim ownership of an object?
Head of theocracies
What is a Priest-King?
Achivement of Nebuchadnezzar
What is expanded territory through military conquest?
Number of laws in Hammurabi's code
What is 282 laws?
Differences in flooding between Egypt and Mesopotamia
What is Mesopotamia flooding more unpredictable and destructive?
What is the wheel?
Head of monarchies
What is a Hereditary king?
Built the world's largest empire
What is Ashurbanipal?
What is establishing justice, maintained order, preventend crime, or regulated justice?
Nickname of where Mesopotamia was established
What is the Fertile Crescent?