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Background of Culture
Economics
Food, Clothing and Shelter
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Family and Kin
100
This river flooded more often
What is Euphrates?
100
The Sumerians invented this significant everyday tool for farming and transportation
What is the wheel?
100
Ziggurats were commonly situated here
What is the center of the city?
100
This code included every Ancient Mesopotamian law
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
These family members arranged Marriages between people
Who are the parents?
200
This area is nearby the Zaggros Mountains and is known for good soil
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This rare blue stone is found in many expensive Sumerian statues and jewelry
What is Lapis Lazuli?
200
They had many levels, one on top of the other, each smaller than the last
What is a ziggurat?
200
The purpose of walls in a Mesopotamian city
What is used to keep intruders out, but more importantly to keep the city from growing outward?
200
In a family unit, this person is responsible for working
What is a man?
300
These two bodies of water are nearby the Fertile Crescent
Where is Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf?
300
The Sumerians grew crops to trade especially for these items
What is gold and silver?
300
This drink was commonly used with meals
What is beer?
300
The main purpose of laws in Mesopotamia
What is used to keep order and justice?
300
Sumerians lived in these housing units
What are large family groups?
400
These are the topographic differences between the north and south Mesopotamia
The north had hills, plains and fertile land. The south was marshy and barren
400
Sumerian Kings paid their workers with these necessities.
What is food, clothing and shelter?
400
Archeologists have found evidence that the walls of at least some ziggurats were painted these colors
What are white, red, blue and black
400
3 types of jobs you would find in a Mesopotamian courtroom
What are (Name 3 of the following) king, scribe, defense, prosecutor, executioner, and suspect?
400
This person inherited everything after the death of a father
Who is the eldest son?
500
All Mesopotamian cities have four characteristics
What are Ziggurats, Public squares, City walls and food storage areas?
500
Sumerians made this 'vehicle' out of bundles of reeds
What are boats?
500
This material was often used to make armor
What is leather?
500
The names of the 3 classes of social organization in Mesopotamia, the types of people you would find in them, the order of rank (lower, upper, middle), and where they lived
What are Amelu, upper class, government officials and kings, middle of cities; Muskina, middle class, tradesmen, merchants, and farmers, outer part of the city and outside the walls (farmers); Wardu, lower, slaves, with their masters ?
500
Children learned this style of writing at school
What is cuneiform