Categories/Geography
What is does Mesopotamia mean?
What is Between Rivers
What is the wheel?
What is allowed the Mesopotamians to use vehicles, like wagons, to transport people and heavy objects over long distances in a shorter amount of time.
What is at the top of the social structure?
Who is the Pharaoh
What physical condition did King Tut have that would have caused him pain when walking?
What is have caused King Tut pain when walking is that he fractured his kneecap.
How did Hammurabi’s Code enforce a social hierarchy in Babylonian society?
What is the punishments were based on social classes. People with more power had less severe punishments.
what does subcontinent mean?
What is a large area of land smaller than a continent
What is are Laws?
What is Mesopotamian kings created law codes to maintain justice and order in their civilizations. The most famous example is Hammurabi’s Code. These codes covered various topics,including family, agriculture, property, and personal injury.
WHat is at the bottom of the socal strucure?
What are farmers, severents, slaves
Who is King Narmer, also known as?
Who is King Menes.
Explain the purpose of Hammurabi’s Code.
What is it create united laws, order, justice, and safety
What rivers were vital to the region of Mesopotamia?
What is Tigris and Euphrates
What is Literature
What is while the Sumerians originally invented cuneiform to keep track of business records, they eventually became more creative and started writing poems, hymns, and epics.
What are scribes and craftsmen?
What are people who wrote the products.
How is Narmer often regarded in relation to Egypt’s pharaohs?
What is he is considered the first pharaoh, a title given to the rulers of Egypt, which lasted for over 3,000 years.
What type of goverment did Hammurabi make?
what is a organized a strong central government throughout the empire.
What modern-day nations can be found in Mesopotamia?
What is Iraq, Iran
What is Writing?
What is the Sumerians created cuneiform, a system of triangle-shaped writing that was imprinted on clay tablets using a reed stylus. Writing was originally used for keeping business records and tax collections.
What does GRAPES represent in a civilization?
What is Geography,Religion,Achievements,Political systems, Economy, Social structure/class
Which king was named after laws?
Who is King Hammurabi
Hammurabi code was the third written legal code.
what is False, it was the first legal written code.
Where was Egypt located? On what river?
What is The Nile River in Africa surrounded by deserts.
What are Musical Instruments?
What is Music has been an important part of many cultures, and Mesopotamia was no exception. Drums, lyres, reed pipes, and tambourines were commonly used by musicians entertaining the elite in Sumer.
What are the 4 ages we learned in order?
What are Paleolithic, Neolithic, bronze, iron
Who said " I build many big buildings and temples to honor the Sun God."
Who is Akhenaten
If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
what is True