Mesopotamia
What does fertile mean?
What is a fertile crescent?
land that was good for crops to grow
How did humans live before civilization?
Early Humans - hunter gatherers and farming
The practice of owning another person
Slavery
Who was at the top of the social class?
The King
What was a group of people who have a complex and organized society?
Civilization
Why did people settle and begin communities in this area?
Excellent land for growing crops
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
Two Rivers
Who is the creator of the code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law.
Hammurabi
Who was below the King in the social class?
The Middle East (Iraq)
Most walls and buildings were made from this becaue of the lack of natural resources in Mesopotamia
mudbrick
What are the names of the two rivers Mesopotamia is between
Tigris and Euphrates
A famous saying from the Code is "An eye for an _____"
Eye
What type of people would be found in the lowest level of society?
Farmers and slaves
Cities in Mesopotamia were called __________ because they had their own rulers.
City-states.
What is Mesopotamian writing called?
Cuneiform
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple called?
ziggurat
What is polytheism?
The worship of more than one god.
What is monotheism?
The worship of one god
What is a way of supplying water to an area of land; allowed the Mesopotamians to farm their dry land
irrigation
Name three Mesopotamia inventions
Plow, sailboat, wheel, cuneiform
What is an organized community with established rules and traditions?
society
What is the defeat of another group?
What is a hierarchy?
A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.