Fertile Crescent Flashcards
A state the works with another state to achieve political or military goals.
Ally
A set of law that governed the Babylonia empire.
Hammurabi’s Code
The idea that all members of society even the rich and powerful had to obey the law.
Rule of law
The belief that there is more than one god.
Polytheism
Pyramid shaped temples that had paintings and statues.
Ziggurats
Written laws that everyone must obey no matter social status. The earliest know laws, created in 2100 BC by Ur-Nammu
Law code/ code of laws
The Sumerians used this material to make weapons and it played an important role in growing cities.
Bronze
a region in the Middle East between the Persian gulf in a Mediterranean Sea
Fertile Crescent
a wide flat plane in present day Iraq that was in the fertile crescent
Mesopotamia
To supply water to crops through canal dug in that ground that can be miles long.
Irrigate
A state that has a city and surrounding territory
City-State
Having human emotion
Anthropomorphic
Giving a nonhuman object human form
personification
trade without the use of money
Barter
an early form of writing that the Sumerians used
Cuneiform
rich soil coming from the mountains good for crops
Silt
Anu
God of heaven
Nanna
Moon god
Utu
God of sun
Shamash
Babylonia god of justice
Abu
God of vegetation
Enbilulu
God of rivers especially tigris and euphrates
Enlil
god of air
Nabu
God of writing and wisdom
