Achievements
This is the Mesopotamians first significant achievement, the thing they perfected that let their civilization grow.
What is agriculture?
This was probably the most important agricultural invention of all time, making growing things so much easier.
What is the plow?
This is the big area of land in which many things can grow, and it includes Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the ruler that is credited with codifying the laws of Mesopotamia.
Who is Hammurabi?
All of the buildings in Mesopotamia were made from these.
What are mud bricks?
This would come later in the history of Mesopotamia, helping to keep order in Hammurabi's time.
What is written/codified/standardized law?
Mesopotamia, home of the world's first ___________ system, to keep track of trade.
What is writing?
This is the river on the northern side of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris?
A good deal of Hammurabi's code deals with this, when one owes something to someone.
What is debt?
While it sounds very fashionable, it was used to write on clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
Sargon had this, the world's first.
What is an empire?
What is the wheel?
This is the river on the southern side of Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates?
Hammurabi's code deals with laws mostly about ___________________.
What is marriage and family?
What is a city-state?
Although the writing system was created to record business, eventually they became creative too. Mesopotamia is the home of the first _________ poem, Gilgamesh.
What is epic?
In order to make sure their crops were water when then was no rain or flooding, which was often, the Mesopotamians created these types of systems.
What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia is in this type of geographic setting, a setting in which many civilizations got their start.
What is a river valley?
Some of Hammurabi's code dealt with property and this, making sure what was grown on it was owned and cared for properly.
What is land?
This is the worship of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Mesopotamia was the home of the first ___________ system to they could send information to each other, probably about trade.
What is postal?
For the first time, citizens would know what the punishment was for a given crime because of the invention of codified ___________.
What are laws?
This is the mountain range from which early Mesopotamians came down from to start living in the the river valley.
What are the Zagros mountains?
It depended on where you were on this as to how severely you were punished.
What is social structure?
This is the type of government that Sargon imposed on his people.
What is a military dictatorship?