Vocabulary
Worshipping multiple gods or deities
What is polytheistic?
________ was located in the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
At the top: Priests, Officials, and Royals
Who are the Nobles?
Fertile land for farming, plenty of water in rivers to use, land perfect for farming, resources to survive
What is unique about Mesopotamia's location and why nomads decided to stay?
Inconsistent rainfall resulted in _____ .
What is a dug system of canals?
What are pictographs?
A strict or harsh set of laws in ancient Mesopotamia
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Mesopotamia was known as _______ . (2)
What is the "land between two rivers" / "Cradle of Civilization"?
Consists of a very small group in the total population.
Who are the Nobles?
What had more signs, the alphabet system or cuneiform?
What is the alphabet system?
A dug system of canals resulted in ____ .
If a son hit his father, then _____ .
What is the son's hands would be cut off?
A wanderer
What is a nomad?
__________ were developed between 3300-3000 BC.
What are City-States?
2nd on the Sumerian Social Hierarchy.
Who are the Craftsmen and Commoners?
Used for irrigation, milling, pottery making initially.
What is the invention of the wheel?
Astronomy, events, and important ideas
What scribes used cuneiform to record information on clay tablets?
A government where priests rule in the name of a god or gods.
What is theocracy / "divine right"?
A self-governing region(called a state), consisting of a city and surrounding territory
What is City-State?
Cuneiform was the first ____________ .
What is known recorded language / earliest known writing system?
Most important workers.
Who are the craftsmen, merchants, and farmers?
Most prominent building in the center of the city-states, wealth was devoted to them.
One of the first legal documents ever written, 282 of them, carved on a stone tablet.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A society controlled by men, favored men, women had few privileges or rights is _____ .
What is patriarchal?
A wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets-writing system of Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
_______ worked for the nobles and palaces. They were farmers, fishermen, and crafters.
What are craftsmen and commoners?
People who worked for skilled workers were called lower workers or ________ .
based on token system, bartering, trading and industry became important
What is the economy of Mesopotamia?
Greatest achievement of all time, used for all forms of transportation and machinery.
What is the wheel?
In 2500 BC, empire first created was called _____.
What is the Akkadian's?
A temple where Sumerians believed gods and goddesses rule the city.
What is a ziggurat?
Stone, wood, mud, clay, reeds, rivers, soil, crops are examples of _____.
What are Sumerian supplies?
At the very bottom of the pyramid below the peasants.
Included slavery, trade, religion, and more.
What are topics included in the Hammurabi Code?
Written in "if-then" form, explained how certain actions lead to certain consequences
Nebuchadneezar ruled _____ .
What are the Babylonians?
An area of land in the Middle East, located around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is the Fertile Crescent?
An epic poem from Mesopotamia time describes the life of a legendary king named _______.
Percentage of people who were farmers was _____.
What came first, second, third, fourth?
Timber, metals, and stone
What are resources that are scarce in Mesopotamia?
What are how historians know so much about civilizations from 1000's of years ago?