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Sumerian Civilization
Sumerian Achievements
The Fall of Sumer
Hammurabi's Code
Vocabulary
100
This component of civilization includes the farms the Sumerians used to grow their food.
What is material culture?
100
This was used for transportation around water ways.
What is the sail?
100
This was one of the first reasons the Sumerians began to fall.
What is a decline in food?
100
Hammurabi's Code is best remembered today by what saying?
What is "An eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth?"
100
This is an excess of something.
What is surplus?
200
This is the name of one of the Sumerian city-states.
What is Lagash, Ur, Uruk, etc.
200
This was used for transportation across land.
What is the wheel?
200
This civilization was the first to overtake the Sumerians.
What is the Akkadians?
200
According to the documents we studied, what are the three parts of Hammurabi's Code?
What are the prologue, the 282 laws, and the epilogue?
200
This is a Sumerian Temple.
What is a ziggurat?
300
These people were on top of the Sumerian social pyramid.
What are kings?
300
This was used to control the flow of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
What is irrigation systems?
300
These people often attacked the Sumerians from the outside.
What are the barbarians?
300
This happens to a son that hurts his father.
What is cutting off his hand?
300
These people were the most highly educated of the Sumerians who were charged with writing.
What are scribes?
400
These people connected the Sumerian peoples to their gods.
What are priests.
400
This is the first known writing system.
What is cuneiform?
400
Sargon came from this other region of Mesopotamia.
What is Akkad?
400
Which crime has a greater punishment: hitting a slave girl or hitting a free man's daughter?
What is hitting a free man's daughter?
400
This is animals tamed for use by humans.
What is domestication?
500
This is a characteristic of polytheism.
What is a belief in more than one god?
500
This was used to increase crop growth by the Sumerians.
What is the plow?
500
This civilization is the last to take over the Sumerians.
What is the Babylonians?
500
Is Hammurabi's Code fair? Explain your thinking...
Answers vary...
500
This is a society based on agriculture.
What is an agrarian society?