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THE LAND
CULTURE
INNOVATIONS
CODE OF HAMMURABI
LEFT-OVER QUESTIONS
100
This is where a river breaks up into many smaller streams, leading to a fertile area for growing.
What is a delta
100
This was a copper, silver or gold coin that weighed the same as 180 grains of barley.
What is a shekel
100
The wheel was invented in Mesopotamia. Its main use in war was for this...
What is the chariot
100
If a noble destroys the eye of another noble, this will happen....
What is the noble's own eye will be destroyed?
100
This word means "plentiful". Example: Mesopotamia had ________ fertile farmland
What is abundant?
200
This is the fine sand that is carried downriver, making the land more fertile for growing
What is silt?
200
This was worth 60 shekels.
What is a mina?
200
Astronomers worked out a twelve month calendar based on this...
What are cycles of the moon?
200
If a son hits his father, this will happen.
What is the son will lose his hand?
200
Most of Mesopotamia is now in this MODERN country.
What is Iraq?
300
This term means the taming of wild animals and plants for farming.
What is domestication.
300
These were the people who knew how to write. They kept records and accounts for rich people or the government.
What were scribes?
300
In mathematics, the counting system was based on this number.
What is 60?
300
When a house collapses and kills the son of the house's owner, this will happen to the builder
What is the builder's son will be killed?
300
These are the two parts of "climate" that are measured in a climograph
What is temperature and rainfall (or precipitation)?
400
Mesopotamia was part of an area called the Fertile Crescent, situated between these two rivers.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
400
This was the name of the economy used in Mesopotamia. It was a "system" of trade.
What is the barter system?
400
This was the name of the language (written) used by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
400
If a man helps a slave escape the city, this is what happens to the man.
What is he will be killed?
400
This means to bring water to the fields to make the land more fertile.
What is irrigate?
500
This is what the word "Mesopotamia" means.
What is the land between two rivers?
500
This was the blue gemstone used as jewelry or statues in Mesopotamia
What is lapis lazuli?
500
This was placed on oxen so carry ploughs in the fields.
What is the shoulder yoke?
500
When a woman has gone out, ruined her house, or not been discreet, or belittled her husband, this will happen to her.
What is she will be drowned
500
This was the name of the currency that equals 60 minas
What is a talent?