Mesopotamia
Characteristics of Complex Society
Hammurabi's Code
Vocab Review
100

These are the two names of the rivers where Mesopotamia is located around. 

What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

100

Mesopotamia ex. wild grains, cereals, development of beer brewing practices. 

What is agriculture and food surplus?

100

If a son hits his father...

Then his hands shall be cut off.

100

This is a person who works as a professional writer for the government or for a business

What is a scribe?
200

This is the nickname given for the region where Mesopotamia is, it is known for having good soil for growing crops.  

What is the Fertile Crescent?
200

Mesopotamian capitals like Ur, Uruk, Babylon, and Sumer. 

What are large populations in cities?
200

If a robber steals a persons thing and is not caught, and the person reports what is stolen from him...

Then the community will have to pay for what was taken from their neighbor. 

200

This is a waterway made by people to control water and irrigate farms  

What is a canal?
300

This is the name for the religious buildings in Mesopotamia.

What is a ziggurat?

300

Mesopotamian populations of government officials, priests, farmers, peasants, and enslaved people. 

What are social classes?

300

This is the complex society characteristic that is very evident from the unfair punishments for physical safety laws. 

What are social classes?

300

This is the system of ancient writing invented in Sumer; the name comes from the wedge shape of a stylus pressed into wet clay

What is cuneiform?

400

This is the name for the geographic region where Mesopotamia is located.

What is the Middle East?

400

Mesopotamian ex. invention of the wheel, improved plows, and development of iron weapons. 

What is achievements in technology, art, and architecture?

400

This is the punishment for a doctor who fails the eye surgery or kills the patient during a procedure.

What is cutting off hands?

400

This is a collection of ancient stories that help explain the world 

What is mythology?

500

This is the name of a literary work written in Mesopotamia about one of their famous kings.

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

500

Mesopotamian ex. People believed in patron gods and goddesses, later people developed monotheistic belief (only believing in one God)

What are systems of religion, government, and education?

500

This is the name of the Mesopotamian Sun God who is carved next to Hammurabi at the top of the stele.

Who is Shamesh?

500

This is a god or goddess adopted and honored by a community; every Sumerian city-state had its own

What is a patron God?