Vocab
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates river, also known as the land between the two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
it is the class with priests, kings, nobles and government officials.
What is the upper class?
What is a plow?
It is a bunch of laws that all have meaning.
What is Hammurabi's code?
He is a person that wanted to be famous and immortal.
Who is Gilgamesh?
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure.
What is Civilization?
Sumerians believed that he was chosen by their gods.
What are kings?
It is a two-wheeled thing that's pulled by a team of animals.
What is a chariot?
They will throw them in the river and if they sink to the river the accused will take his house if he get out of the river unhurt the accused will be killed.
what happens when someone accuses a man?
Gilgamesh rejected her.
Who is Ishtar?
Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other one is superior.
What is a tribute?
One thing Sumerians created that changed their lives was this.
What are wheels?
Sumerians used clay and a clay mold to make so many of these.
What is mass-produced bricks?
If they build a house that isn't stable and falls on the owner and kills them they will be killed.
What is Hammurabi's code?what will happen to the builder if they build a house that isn't stable?
They where a horned animal that the gods sent after Gilgamesh.
Who is the Bull of Heaven?
The way region or country uses resources to sell or trade goods and services to meet people's needs and wants.
What is Economy?
They used it to record information about goods people exchanged.
What did Sumerians use written language for?
Sumerians used clay and made them on a spinning wheel to make so many of these.
What is mass-produced bricks?
He could make them do work 3 years in the house of their purchaser of master and only on the fourth year they will be free.
What does a man have to do if he doesn't pay his debts if he doesn't sell his family members?
He told Gilgamesh about a great flood that brought him eternal life.
Who is Utnapishtim?
The place in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
What is Sumer?
Sumerians used this to survive and they have to have it, otherwise they'd die.
What did Sumerians use a stable food supply for?
Scribes used sharp reeds and wet clay to make this possible.
What is writing?
many are about what happens if someone does something to a man or something someone does that might effect them or someone else.
What does Hammurabi's code mostly about?
He was told that he might get his goal if he stayed awake for seven nights.
what was something Gilgamesh tried to do to get eternal life?