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Hammurabi
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Potpourri
100
This is "the land between rivers"?
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Geography: This is the quality of the soil for most of the year in the fertile crescent
What is Hot, dry, and tough as stone?
100
This is a list of over 200 laws set down in 1700 bc.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
A language written into clay tablets. Literally means "wedge shaped"
What is Cuneiform?
100
This area was an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil perfect for agriculture
What is the 'fertile crescent'?
100
This person had absolute power in the Babylonian empire
Who is the king?
200
These were giant temples where the gods/goddesses were thought to live
What are Ziggurats?
200
This aspect of GRAPES is represented by the words: Gods, temples, worship, and ziggurats
What is Religion?
200
This is what happens if someone takes someone else's eye according to Hammurabi's Code
What is they lose an eye. "Eye for an Eye"?
200
these were built to hold back the spring flooding of the rivers
What are dams and levees?
200
This farming practice involves moving water from one place to another using canals.
What is 'Irrigation"?
200
This season brought the flooding of the rivers
What is spring?
300
These are the two rivers that brought water to Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
300
GRAPES this image showing
What is 'Economy'?
300
Hammurabi was king/emporer of this empire
What is Babylon?
300
According to legend, this was invented when a device to make pottery fell over and rolled away
What is the 'Wheel'?
300
This is a layer of fine dirt and rocks that the rivers would bring every year with the floods. It is perfect for growing crops
What is 'silt'?
300
These people made sure to keep the gods and goddesses happy
Who is everyone:from priests and kings, to farmers and slaves?
400
This was an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
What is a 'city-state'?
400
This is why city-states build walls and moats around their cities
What is the land was flat and, they were easily attacked by rival tribes or empires.
400
This is how Hammurabi's Code affected women
What is giving them more rights than they had before?
400
This is still used today to discuss seconds, minutes, and hours.
What is the Base-60 number system?
400
The business of buying and selling, or exchanging items and resources
What is 'trade'?
400
This word means the belief in many gods
What is 'Polytheism"?
500
This is a person in the king's court that writes down everything.
What is a 'scribe'?
500
According to Mesopotamian religion, how did the gods affect a King's decision making
What is, he would make decisions based on the will of the gods
500
This is how Hammurabi's code affected future civilizations
How did Hammurabi's code set the basis for our modern day law codes?
500
These were war machines pulled by horses. They had two wheels and carried one or two armed people
What were 'Chariots'?
500
This is the city Gilgamesh was from
What is Uruk?
500
This is the language that The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in.
What is Akkadian?