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What is a patriarchal society?
What is men made the decisions in family and had power in government
Priests- 1 role - 1 responisbility
What is made sure gods looked favorably upon city-state - made offerings to gods
The earliest group of city-states was called ---.
What is Sumer
What did pottery help with?
What is to store (crops)
Hammurabi's code changed the way people thought about ----.
What is justice
Name three facts about men in patriarchal societies
What is religious and political leaders were men, men have rule of daughters and wives, dads decide who daughters marry
Could judges be punished for being unfair
What is YES!!!
Enslaved People - 1 role - 3 things became slaves for by
What is free labor - captured in war, punishment for crime, fell into debt
Government Officials- 1 role - 3 responsibilities
What is supported king - collected taxes, ran army, made sure laws followed
Hammurabi's code moved justice from --- to ----- control
What is gods to human
Each city-state was ----, and ruled by one ----. City-states were connected by -----.
What is, independent, king, common culture and trade
What are 3 facts about the Mesopotamian calenders?
what is helped improve agriculture (kept track floods), based 12-month calendar, lunar
What is the rule of law?
What is all people bound by 1 common set of law
What are epics, what do they teach us?
what is long poems and stories about gods - about the civilizations culture and people
Women - 2 roles - 4 responsibilities
What is daughter, wife, mother (could also be scribes, priestesses, etc.) - made clothing, cooked, midwives, take care of the house
Name 3 things about the clear set of laws and punishment called Hammurabi's code that was fair
protected innocent, criminal, weak, helpless (EVERYONE)
punishment should match the crime
laws same throughout land
Merchants - 1 role - 1 responsibility
Scribes - 1 role - 1 responsibility
what is brought money and wealth to Meso. through trade - sold goods
record keepers - read and wrote cuneiform (writing system)
Artisans - 1 role - 1 responsibility
Farmers - 1 role - 1 responsibility
what is brought money and wealth to Meso. through trade - made goods
provided food to city-states - gave crops to kings and priests in exchange for maintenance of irrigation system and protection
What did the wheel and plow help with?
What is quick and easy transportation
work more quick and efficient, plus easier to break up soil for planting.
What did metals help with? (3)
What is melted metals to create tools, weapons, plows, containers
stronger - lasted longer
trading it spread the use between civilizations
Name 1 role of kings and 5 responsibilities.
What is the head of society (power from god)
led army, settled conflicts, managed ziggurats (build and take care of), set taxes and made laws, oversaw religious ceromonies
Name the four empires plus their kings in order
What is Akkadian (King Sargon)
Babylonian (King Hammurabi)
Assyrian (no king)
Chaldean (King Neb.)
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
What is A Sumerian legend that was the first written story discovered, it is about a cruel king named Gilgamesh and how he changed into a respected leader.
Sumerians were the first to develop writing and cuneiform was the first alphabet. Cuneiform had symbols represented by ----- and they wrote on ----- and used a pen-shaped tool called a -----. Cuneiform was ---- and kids went to school to learn it.
What is sounds, clay tablets, stylus, difficult
Name 3 facts about Hammurabi's code
What is the earliest complete law code
found in Iraq
included laws that managed daily life: marriage, debt, stealing, violence