Rivers Run Through It
The arc of land in the Middle East that has good soil, a hot climate, and water.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
The exchange of goods and services.
What is trade?
Because of the development of writing, they sold their writing skills for a living to write down laws.
Who are scribes?
The way water was brought to the fields.
What is Irrigate?
New ways of doing things.
What are innovations?
The Greek meaning of "The Land Between two Rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
What is culture?
The most well known set of laws that was based on the idea of "eye for an eye".
What are the Hummurabi Code?
What innovation made the society thrive, and then later destroyed it?
What are canals?
First written language developed by the Mesopotamians.
What is Cuneiform?
These rivers run along the Fertile Crescent.
What are the the Tigris and Euphrates?
As trading helped Mesopotamian society flourish, their wealth and resources flourished, which is called this.
What is economy?
Similarities (2) between Hammurabi Law and Canadian Law.
What are:
1. laws made to protect peoples rights
2. laws apply to different aspects of society
3. punishments for crimes committed
Name 3 things that Mesopotamians developed skills in to make money and make the economy thrive.
What are: pottery, leatherwork, metal work, scribe, carpentry, weaving?
Mathematics was used by the Mesopotamians to successfully accomplish these.
What are build canals, keep records of money/taxes, and establish a calendar?
Name the 4 civilizations of the Mesopotamia plain.
What is Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Chaldea?
Trade was responsible for allowing people to learn other peoples ________ and ________.
What are Innovations and Culture?
These distinguish the Hummurabi Law from Canadian Law. (3)
What are:
1. harsh punishment, some unreasonable and unfair
2. protect rich and powerful
3. unequal treatment of men and women
4. no trial
Name 4 farming innovations of the Mesopotamians.
What are canals, dikes, dams, plough, well, etc.?
The wheel was first used by the Mesopotamians. These are things that the wheel allowed them to do.
What are pulleys for wells, wagon for transporting goods, chariots for warfare, and pottery wheel to make pottery?