Political Patterns
It was a monarchy.
What is the centralized government of Mesopotamia?
For tools and defense weapons.
How did they use metal in Mesopotamia?
Punishment, prisoners in war, and failure to pay taxes
What were the three reasons for slavery in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Irrigation ditches and wheels
What were the agricultural supplies in Mesopotamia?
''Meso'' means middle and ''Potamia'' means river, middle of 2 rivers
What does Mesopotamia mean?
The Hammurabi Code
What were the written laws of Mesopotamia?
Environmental challenges in Mesopotamia?
What was flooding, they were defenseless, building materials were scarce.
The highest were the kings.
The lowest were the slaves.
What was the highest and lowest level of the social casts?
Most complex solution?
What is unpredictable flooding
Mesopotamia
What was the culture that invented the first language , religion, and culture?
Hammurabi code covered punishments from fines to death, based on social class.
What areas of life did Hammurabi code cover?
They had a lot of trade, they had products they gave and received
In Mesopotamia, were they economically succesful? Why?
A king passes his throne and power to another member of the family
What is the definition of a hereditary rule?
They helped improve the way we keep track of time, example calendar and when to plant crops.
What was the Mesopotamian's interaction with the environment?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What were the names of the 2 most important rivers that were beside Mesopotamia?
Written code development
What are written laws that helped unify diverse groups of people in society?
They mainly imported hardwood, fruits, semi-precious stones and harder metals.
What were the main things that they traded in Mesopotamia?
Polytheism
What was the religion of Sumerians?
What did Mesopotamia's specifically use for softening crops, did they administrate well their resources?
What were wooden plows for softening the soil before cultivating crops.
The Zagros Mountains and the Arabian Plateu
Apart from the 2 rivers that were beside Mesopotamia, what important pieces of nature were beside Mesopotamia?
It means Babylonian Empire
What is Humar?
They depended on Agriculture and on trade
In what specific things did Mesopotamia's Economy depend on?
Spread of Sumerians through Mesopotamia
What are agricultural innovations that permanently influenced Mesopotamian civilizations.?
Did Mesopotamians Agriculture develop greatly or not? Why?
Yes, because annual flooding in the rivers that were close to them.
Side with rivers was very agricultural and side with no rivers, they had to develop irrigation techniques
What was very interesting about Mesopotamian's location related to the rivers?