Hammurabi
Who was Hammurabi?
A Babylonian King
What food and drink did the Mesopotamians make that we still eat and drink today? Name one.
bread and beer
Who wore makeup?
men and women?
What was a Mesopotamian invention that needed to be invented before chariots were invented.
wheel
Who was someone who could write? What were they called?
scribe
Complete this phrase. An eye for an ___ and a tooth for a _____
tooth
What is one crop the Ancient Mesopotamians planted?
early Mesopotamian farmers' main crops were barley and wheat. But they also cultivated a wide variety of crops including beans, peas, lentils, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce and garlic, as well as fruit such as grapes, apples, melons and figs.
Who went to school?
boys
What Mesopotamian invention helped them build houses and cities?
mud brick
What did they write on?
Clay tablets
Hammurabi's laws where harsher for who?
Slaves, or people of a lower class
What was the name for the process of moving and storing water?
Irrigation
Who drank beer and why?
everyone, it was healthy
What Mesopotamian invention helped them travel on the sea?
The sail
What was the pointy stick called that the Ancient Mesopotamians wrote with?
Stylus
Explain what eye for an eye actually means and give an example of a law
If you do something to someone, something similar will happen to you
If you gouge out someone's eye they will gouge out your eye
Where was Ancient Mesopotamia located on today's maps?
Ancient Mesopotamia was in present day Iraq, in the Middle East.
What did Ancient Mesopotamians do for fun?
music, games, boxing, wrestling
Name an Ancient Mesopotamian invention that had to do with math or science.
calendar, geometry, the circle, etc
What is the wedge shaped writing called?
cuneiform
Name a natural consequence or eye for an eye law in our school.
Make a mess, clean it up
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the crescent shaped land between the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, that is great for growing
Name a lower class person, a middle class person, and a higher class person.
low- slaves and farmers
middle- merchants, artisans, craftsman
high- nobles, priests, vizier, king
What did King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon create for his wife that was considered one of the 10 wonders of the ancient world?
Hint: they have no idea how they watered it
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Kings did not know how to write, so if they told the scribe to write something, the scribe could have written something different, and only other people that could read and write would know that. For example, a scribe could change one of Hammurabi's laws.