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Here Comes the Judge
Look at what I made!
Where are we?
What do you believe?
Variety is the spice of life
100
Babylonian King who built a strong central government
Who is Hammurabi?
100
This invention allowed Mesopotamian traders to move their goods more quickly along trade routes
What is the wheel?
100
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers
What is Euphrates and Tigris?
100
means to worship many gods
What is polytheism?
100
bottom of the social pyramid
Who are enslaved people?
200
A set of laws that got posted all over and were created by a special King
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
an invention that allowed farmers to work in their fields to do more work and do it faster
What is the plow?
200
One of the three major cities of ancient Mesopotamia uncovered by archeologists
What is Ur, Eridu or Uruk?
200
often built in the middle of city states to honor gods and insure they would stay protecting the city
What is a ziggurat?
200
these people traded with each other and with people passing through from other civilizations
Who are merchants?
300
Mesopotamian's believe that King Hammurabi was sent by
What is Shamash (God of the Sun)
300
earliest plows were made of this and pulled by oxen
What is iron?
300
Another name for the large plain where Mesopotamia was located
What is Fertile Crescent?
300
Mesopotamians believed that all the land and everything in it was owned by this
What is the gods?
300
Mesopotamia was this kind of society which meant men had the power over matters of government and family
What is patriarchal?
400
Hammurabi's code moved the commonly believed burden of justice from the God's to this
What is human control?
400
this invention based on the cycle of the moon allowed farmers to harvest more food and create a food surplus for trading
What is the calendar?
400
the method of controlling water used my farmers so they would have water for their crops during the dry times of year
What is irrigation?
400
what the many flights of steps allowed in a ziggurat
What is gods to get down to earth?
400
Sargon conquered many city states and created this earliest Mesopotamian Empire
What is Akkadian?
500
Even though Hammurabi's Law standardized law throughout the land, committing a crime against someone with this could still bring a harsher penalty
What is higher social class?
500
allowed farmers to keep records of their crops and merchants to keep records of their transactions
What is cuneiform?
500
what you call the rich, fertile soil that is brought by the floodwaters of rivers
What is silt?
500
the oldest written story of an ancient hero (half god, half man), similar to the story of Noah's Ark
What is Gilgamesh?
500
After the Akkadian Empire fell apart, Hammurabi conquered and created this empire
What is the Babylonian Empire?