Vocabulary
This is a system in which water is carried from place to place
What is Irrigation?
Government that has a king in charge
River reeds and clay tablets
First civilization of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
How many codes did Hammurabi's Code have?
282
This is a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
What is city-state?
This group made up the bottom of the social pyramid
What are slaves?
Name one of the characteristics that made Mesopotamia the first civilization in the world.
1. Advanced technologies
2. Record Keeping
3. Complex Institutions
4. Specialized Workers
5. Advanced Cities
Land Between Two Rivers
Rivers that run through Mesopotamia
Tigirs and Euphrates
This is the first documented writing style in the world
What is cuneiform?
What is 6?
What was a method of controlling water in Mesopotamia?
Canals, Levee building, irrigation systems
Great leader of the Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi
A deity that is honored the most by a city
What is a patron God/Goddess
An unusually or surprising amount of overflowing water
What is flood?
Scribes were only able to be what?
Tools for farming in Mesopotamia were huge for their empire's success. What was one of those tools?
Sickle, plow, irrigation, slaves, animals
How did the Fertile Crescent become so fertile
Floods and droughts
Name a city in Mesopotamia
Ur, Uruk, Babylon, Nineveh, Kish, etc..
Structure located in the middle of the city usually as a city hall and religious temple
What is ziggurat?
This leader was considered the best leader of Akkadia
Who is Naram-Sin?
The Farmers Instructions
Purpose for creating Hammurabi's Code
To maintain social order
Name a God famous in Mesopotamia
Ki, Enlil, Enki, Ishtar