Geography
What two rivers flow through Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
People had specialized jobs in Mesopotamia. Name three.
This is what religion was like in Mesopotamia.
Gods (and demons) looked like and acted like people but had supernatural powers.
This was the earliest and most complete written legal code of 282 laws that included harsh punishments based on social class.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Mesopotamians were the first to invent this, inspired by a pottery wheel.
What is a wheel (for carts)?
Name two countries that are now located where Mesopotamia once was.
This is what Mesopotamians used to make clothes.
What is sheep's wool?
These people were buried alive so they could help their masters after they died.
Hammurabi's Code was written on this.
What is a 7-foot-tall, finger-shaped, black stone pillar discovered in 1901?
Mesopotamians invented this after watching cloth drying on a clothesline.
What is a sail for boats?
What is Asia?
Find the words that fill in these blanks: Some houses had _____________ toilets but __________ was thrown in the street.
flush / trash
These things might have been buried with the deceased person in their tomb.
Under Hammurabi's Code, this could be the punishment for stealing.
What is - having a hand amputated?
Mesopotamians used mathematics to measure time Name three things that they developed around time.
1. 60 minute hour
2. 60 second minute
3. 24 hour days
This was the first written epic story ever.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A statue of Hammurabi is in this federal building in the United States today.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
The Mesopotamians were the first to use writing be pressing shapes into clay tablets. What was this writing called?
What is cuneiform?