Vocabulary
Hammurabi's Code/Hammurabi
Laws
(Answer it as similarities/differences/neither)
City-States
Geography
100

a rectangular stepped tower

what is a ziggurat?

100

1792-1750 BCE

What is when Hammurabi reigned?

100

Have these laws to ensure no one does anything bad.

what is similarities

100

Eridu, Lagash, and Nippur

What are some of sumers city-states

100

The river on the right of the map on the slides

what is the Tigris river

200

a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris

what was Mesopotamia?

200

earliest and most complete written legal codes

what is Hammurabi's code

200

Both written on something establishing them

what is similarities 

200

hills and plains 

what is how northern Mesopotamia looked

200

The river on the left of the map on the slides

What is the Euphrates River

300

a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor

what is an empire?

300

282 laws

what is how many laws Hammurabi's Code had?

300

Based on anything (like if someone says someone else did something and couldn’t prove it they were drowned)

Difference (Hammurabi's Code

300

metals and stone from the mountains

what is what makes ember

300

Fertile Soil

what happened when the rivers flooded

400

a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.

what is cuneiform?

400

The ancient city-state of Babylonia.

what is where Hammurabi ruled?

400

Has 4,450 laws

what is difference (America)

400

priests

What were Uruk's current leaders

400

The invention of irrigation

What did the flood cause to happen?

500

a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification.

what is a code of law?

500

massive, finger-shaped black stone stele

what was what Hammurabi's code was carved onto.

500

no punishment for any crime committed

what is neither

500

war

What were the sumer city-states always at.

500

crops and food

what did the farmers grew