Farming
This development made the creation of other jobs possible.
What is a food surplus?
This is the purpose of Hammurabi's Code as stated within the code.
What is so the strong will not harm the weak?
What is please the gods so they will continue providing blessings?
Once people developed a food surplus, they were able to start doing this.
This is the term for when there is little to no rain in an area over a specific period of time.
What is a drought?
These rivers flooded each year and were a great water source.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is the popular term for punishments that match their crimes.
What is an eye for an eye?
The food surplus made room for people to have new jobs such as these.
What are scribe, merchant, and artisan?
Once Mesopotamians developed new jobs, they were able to start participating in this with other civilizations.
What is trade?
This is the term for fair or equal behavior/treatment.
What is justice?
This development made farm work easier and faster, eventually leading to a food surplus.
What is using domesticated animals for labor?
Punishments were greater for crimes committed against this group of people.
What is the upper class?
These people oversaw taxes, law enforcement, and building projects.
Who are government officials?
What are hunter-gatherers?
This is the term for the fertile soil left behind by flooding rivers.
What is silt?
What are irrigation systems?
What is from the gods?
This is the reason the hierarchy is shown as a pyramid.
What is there are fewer people with the most power and more people with the least power?
Using domesticated animals for labor allowed people to do this.
What is spend their extra time developing new skills?
This is the term for tamed animals and plants that are raised/grown for human use.
What is domestication?
Mesopotamians developed this tool to help planting move more quickly.
What is the plow?
Hammurabi's Code had greater punishments for crimes committed against the upper class to protect this system.
What is the social pyramid / hierarchy?
Mesopotamians trusted the king because they wanted these people who gave him his power to stay happy.
Who are the gods?
This is the term for different people doing different jobs.
What is specialization/division of labor?
This is the name for the surroundings/conditions where a person or animal lives.
What is environment?