Civilization
Kings and priests.
Who is at the top tear of the social levels?
to train a wild animal to be useful to humans
What is Domestication?
What the city-states fought over.
What is crops, animals, and/or land?
Gilgamesh wants to be famous.
What does Gilgamesh want to be?
Because Hammurabi was the first to write a code of law.
Why was Hammurabi important?
Artisans, fisherman, and farmers.
Who is in the middle tear of the social levels?
Fine particles of rock
What is silt?
a place in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
What is sumer?
Because he defeated the bull from heaven
A easy way to get food, enough food, and an irrigation system.
What is a stable food supply?
a type of writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
What is cuneiform?
Elam and Sumer
Who went to war in c. 2700 BCE?
By staying awake for 7 days and 7 nights.
From conquering their neighbors
How did Babylonia gain it's wealth?
Wheels and the Plow.
What are some examples of technology that the Sumerians made?
a large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and goverment
What is an empire?
They became enslaved people.
Enkidu became very sick.
Gender equality.
What did Babylonia not have?
In 330 BCE
When was cuneiform invented?
the belief that there are many gods
What is polytheism?
The wagon carried archen, soldiers, generals, and weapons in war.
How did Sumerians use the wagon in a fight?
Humbaba.
What monster does Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay?
Because the Babylonians built the first metropolis
Why was Babylonia so importent?