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Rivers
Agriculture/Division of Labor
Religion
Hammurabi's Code
Written Language
100
near rivers
Where did people settle in Mesopotamia?
100
Farmers grew a surplus of food.
What is so others could do other jobs?
100
Religion was important in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumerians believed their gods had enormous powers?
100
1st set of written laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
writing in Mesopotamia was called
What is cuneiform?
200
control the flooding of the rivers
Why did Mesopotamians build canals?
200
craftsmen, religious leaders & government officials
What are examples of other jobs?
200
Priests were near the top of the social hierarchy.
What is priests knew how to please the gods?
200
Main difference between Hammurabi's Code and earlier laws.
What is it was written down?
200
reason writing was developed
What is to keep track of goods?
300
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
What are the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
300
Food surplus that led to the growth of cities.
What is the development of agriculture?
300
Priests became powerful.
What is people believed priests knew how to communicate with the gods?
300
This happened because people disobeyed laws.
What are consequences for breaking laws?
300
cuneiform
What is the first system of writing?
400
farmers could water their crops during the dry season
What is irrigation?
400
People learned to manage river flooding.
How did agriculture develop?
400
first leaders
Who are priests?
400
carved in a clay tablet with a sharp reed
What is cuneiform writing?
500
The most important invention to the development of agriculture.
What is irrigation?
500
pictures that represent objects
What are pictographs?