Geography
Located in Southwest Asia
What is Mesopotamia?
Flowed through the heart of the city-states
What is a canal?
Could read, write, and keep records
What is a scribe?
The ox-driven plow, an abacus, swords, and the wheel
What is improved technology?
To make tilling the land easier
What is the ox-driven plow?
This area had great soil/silt to farm in Mesopotamia and in Southwest Asia
More than what you need
What is a surplus?
Where people pray and make sacrifices to the gods
What is a ziggurat?
Cultural center for civilizations
What are cities?
Sliding beads used for counting
What is an abacus?
Southern Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
What are tin and copper?
The person who traded with buyers for products
What is a merchant?
Thanks to a surplus of food, people can do something other than farming
What are specialized jobs?
Phoenicians were known for this specialized job. It also helped spread culture through navigation.
What is shipbuilding?
Using human-made resources to transport water from the water source to a crop
What is irrigation?
United the city-states to create his Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
The belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
Government and Religion
What are Complex Institutions?
This number was devised in their number system and was used to help keep track of time
What is 60?
Mud/dirt that was good for farming
What is Silt?
Creating straight streets, strong city walls, magnificent temples, and efficient irrigation canals
"To prevent the strong from oppressing the weak and to see that justice is done to widows and orphans." Hammurabi
What is the purpose of the code of laws?
Reading, writing, and calendars
What is record keeping?
The writing system of Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?