Vocabulary
A professional writer who recorded official information.
What is a scribe?
Workers who preformed jobs other than farming.
What are specialized workers?
The earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
Region with fertile, flat floodplains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Southwest Asia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The region that Hammurabi was king of.
What is Babylon?
A pyramid-shaped temple in Sumerian city-states.
What is a ziggurat?
Organizing and storing information.
What is record keeping?
The process by which cultures interact and spread ideas from one area to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Carved into an eight-foot high stone slab.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
What is a staple/staple crop?
People developing new tools and techniques to solve problems and survive.
What is improved technology?
A formal series of acts Sumerians performed in the same way to please the gods.
"The land between the rivers."
Hammurabi's code main guideline for punishments. (quote)
What is "an eye for an eye"?
The supply of water to fields using human-made systems.
What is irrigation?
A political, economic, and cultural center with a large population.
What are cities?
A category of people based on wealth or status in a society.
What are social classes?
More than what is needed or used; extra.
What is a surplus?
Who is Shamash?
A belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Government and organized religion used to manage resources and population.
What are complex institutions?
The world's oldest recorded story.
What is 'The Epic of Gilgamesh'?
The nickname of the world's first civilization, Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Cradle of Civilization?
To unite Mesopotamia and “To prevent the strong from oppressing the weak and to see that justice is done to widows and orphans.”
What was the purpose (of Hammurabi's code)?