Specialized Jobs
This job required you to complete written records for the government.
What is a scribe?
This invention was used to help make stronger battle wagons.
What is the wheel?
What is cuneiform?
This is the name of the school in which only boys were allowed to learn in.
What is Scribe School?
These groups of people had harsher consequences for breaking the laws than those of a higher class.
Who were enslaved/formerly enslaved people?
This King ruled over his empire effectively by creating a strong set of laws that had harsh consequences.
Who is King Hammurabi?
This invention was one of the most important ones, and you do it every single day in school.
What is the invention of writing?
This job required you to write for the government and keep written records of events.
What is a scribe?
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
This person had a higher social class, and had a large role in the temples.
Who is a priest?
This job was one completed at the canal, helping transport goods and services by the water.
What is a boatman?
The use of this metal made both armor and weapons stronger in the Assyrian Empire.
What is iron?
Early Mesopotamians did not write on paper. Instead, they wrote on...
What are clay tablets?
This is the name of one of the ancient temples Mesopotamians would go to to pray to their patron gods.
What is the Ziggurat?
This city-state had the earliest known...
What are enslaved people?
People who worked in this place traded goods and food. There were often robberies here.
What is the market?
Name the type of system that was used to manage water systems for the city-state.
What is irrigation?
This person was the first person to use "I" in her writing, and was known to be the first author.
Who is Princess Enheduanna?
What empire had the strongest military?
What is Assyria?
Name the word that is defined as to overcome or take over another group of people by force; usually done by a government
What is to conquer?
This job has been done for thousands of years before our Mesopotamians, and was invented during the Neolithic Age.
What is farming?
What is the invention that you use every day in Ms. Rizzo's classroom (be specific)
What is arithmetic, geometry, etc?
This is the name of the monument that had Hammurabi's code written on it.
What is a stele?
This adventure story discusses a buddy-adventure between two best friends, and mentions some patron gods.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Who could see and access Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
Who is everyone?