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Vocabulary
Hammurabi
Geography
Achievements
Potpourri
100
producing abundant crops
What is fertile?
100
he was originally the king of this city-state
What is Babylon?
100
the present day country where Mesopotamia was located
What is Iraq?
100
name of their writing system
What is cuneiform?
100
Mesopotamia literally means this:
What is "the land between two rivers"?
200
the shape of the area where Mesopotamia developed; an arc
What is a crescent?
200
he did not believe in conquering other city-states True or False
What is False?
200
description of the land in Mesopotamia:
What is dry, desert-like, fertile soil along the rivers?
200
they controlled the flooding of the rivers so that they could do this to their crops:
What is irrigate them?
200
explain why the land around Mesopotamia was called the "fertile crescent"?
What is because the land was in the shape of a crescent/arc and it was healthy soil because of the rivers?
300
the process of supplying water to crops for growth
What is irrigation?
300
two improvements that he brought to other city-states:
What is irrigation, housing, or laws?
300
Name of the two rivers where Mesopotamia developed:
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
300
2 things they developed to protect themselves:
What is building walls around the city-states and building armies?
300
2 reasons why civilizations developed along rivers"
What is 1. healthier soil 2. fish 3. water 4. transportation 5. trading
400
meaning of just:
What is fair?
400
Hammurabi received his power to rule from:
Who is the god Shamash?
400
the fertile crescent area is in between two bodies of water:
What is The Persian Gulf and The Mediterranean Sea?
400
this was the name of their religious temples:
What is a ziggurat?
400
the reason Hammurabi posted the laws in a public place:
What is to make sure that people were aware of them?
500
what does a merchant do? what does an artisan do?
What is trade? What is a skilled worker who makes things by hand?
500
the main objective of Hammurabi's code:
What is to protect the weak from the strong?
500
the continent that Mesopotamia developed in:
What is Asia?
500
their belief in many gods was called this:
What is polytheism?
500
popular phrase from Hammurabi's code of law that means the criminal gets a punishment that is similar to their crime:
What is "an eye for an eye" or a "tooth for a tooth"?