Hammurabi's Code
Written on Hammurabi's Code
What are laws?
Something all civilizations need
What are civilians?
It helped mesopotamians to lift and move things
What is a wheel?
A place in the fertile crescent where many city-states are
What is sumer?
This city-state conquered the Akkadian empire
What is Babylon
What Hammurabi's Code is
What is a stele?
All civilizations have some things in common
What is true?
Known as Hamurabi's Code
What is a stele with laws on it
The process of taming an animal
What is domestication
The world's first civilization
What is Sumer?
Hammurabi was king of
What is Babylonia?
Civilizations use this to get water
What is irrigation?
It helped make buildings stronger
What is an arch?
Small particles of rock
What is slit?
The first empire
What is Assyria?
Approximate number of laws on Hammurabi's Code
How much is about 300?
Civilizations need a stable ____ supply
What is food?
What Babylon became
What is an empire?
A blockade to force a city-state to surrender
What is a siege?
How Babylon got it's wealth
What is conquering?
Hammurabi is depicted speaking with them on his stele
Who is Shamash?
It is a kings duty to build these near the center of their civilizations in ancient Sumer
What is a ziggurat?
It is used to hold weapons and people, while utilizing the wheel
What is a battle wagon?
The god of sun and justice
Who is Shamash
The original city of the Assyrian empire
What is Ashur