Inventions
What was used to move water
What is the lowest social structure?
What is a slave and women?
Who is known for his code of laws, successfully united his empire, and improved irrigation
Hammurabi
Did the Hamurabis code helped woman?
Yes
they had more rights like owning thweir own land under their name and being able to get a divorced.
What are the 2 rivers Mesopotamia is located on?
Euphrates and Tigris
What did they invent to keep a stable civilzation?
What is Laws
What was the highest socail class?
What is a preist?
Who built the largest empire yet seen?
Cyrus the Great
Hlow may rules were there?
282
What type of soil did they have?
Rich fertile soil
What did the Sumarand invent for intertainment?
Board Games
What is the laws called?
What is Hammurabi's code?
Who Invaded and conquered the neighboring city-states of Sumer?
Sargon
Why were the punishments different?
Becuase of one's social classes
What are the irrigation systems for?
flood control and farming.
What Sumerian invention allowed the Mesopotamians to use vehicles,wagons, transport people and heavy objects over long distances in a shorter amount of time
The Wheel
What were the jobs most Sumerians had?
Farming, Merchants, and Artists
Who Rebuilt the canals, temples, walls, and palaces in Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzar
Finish the sentence
Possible the world's first...
...written legal code
What does Mesopotamia mean?
"Land between the Rivers"
what was invented for farming
Who went to support temples and priests?
Food surpluses
Who founded one of the world's first libraries?
Assurbanipal
Combined the laws of all what city-states into how much central codes?
Babylonian and 1 central code
what is west and couth of Mesopotamia?
West- Mediterranean Sea
South- Persian Gulf