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Mesopotamia is the land between ______________
two rivers
What did Hammurabi invent?
laws
Why would people live near the rivers?
There is alot of food.
Cuneiform was the name of their _____________
alphabet/writing
You also have to get blind/lose an eye
Why didn't the people have to hunt as much?
They had farms now or could buy it
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon no longer
exist/ are real
According to Hammurabi's law, if you are a doctor and your patient dies, what happens to you?
They cut off your hands
People did not only have to be hunters or gatherers, they could have _________ and do other things
jobs
Ziggurats were temples that the Mesopotamians used for ____________
praying
According to Hammurabi's law if you set someone's house on fire what would happen to you?
They set you on fire/set your house on fire
These people basically invented the ___________ because they created the names for days of the week.
Calendar
They believed in more than one ________
god
Hammurabi said his laws were _________
fair/equal
These people learned how to do __________ because they had to count money.
math