a rectangular stepped tower
what is a ziggurat?
1792-1750 BCE
What is when Hammurabi reigned?
Have these laws to ensure no one does anything bad.
what is similarities
Eridu, Lagash, and Nippur
What are some of sumers city-states
The river on the right of the map on the slides
what is the Tigris river
a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris
what was Mesopotamia?
earliest and most complete written legal codes
what is Hammurabi's code
Both written on something establishing them
what is similarities
hills and plains
what is how northern Mesopotamia looked
The river on the left of the map on the slides
What is the Euphrates River
a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor
what is an empire?
282 laws
what is how many laws Hammurabi's Code had?
Based on anything (like if someone says someone else did something and couldn’t prove it they were drowned)
Difference (Hammurabi's Code
metals and stone from the mountains
what is what makes ember
Fertile Soil
what happened when the rivers flooded
a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.
what is cuneiform?
The ancient city-state of Babylonia.
what is where Hammurabi ruled?
Has 4,450 laws
what is difference (America)
priests
What were Uruk's current leaders
The invention of irrigation
What did the flood cause to happen?
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?
massive, finger-shaped black stone stele
what was what Hammurabi's code was carved onto.
no punishment for any crime committed
what is neither
war
What were the sumer city-states always at.
crops and food
what did the farmers grew