Fertile Crescent Civilization Flashcards
fertile crescent is between the ________ ___ and the Persian Gulf
mediterrian sea
Why is it called fertile crescent
because it has fertile soil and its shaped like a new moon
The southern part is known as ‘___’ , which means the land between the two rivers
Mesopotamia
sumerians lived in present day ___
Iraq
sumerians were the first people to establish ____ and invent ____
cities; writing
Built the world’s first cities in ___ BC
4000
Each sumerian city had its own ___ and __, like an independent state. They are called ‘_________’
governmant and army; city-states
The largest city-state
‘Ur’
Sumerians used __ as building materials because the plains in fertile crescent lacked ___ and ___
mud bricks; wood and stone
Sumerian temples were known as ___
Ziggurat
representative architecture
Hanging Garden
Sumerians were ruled by ___
king
Three classes of sumerian society
privilidged class, commoners, slaves
what did commoners have to do
pay taxes and work for rulers
what did slaves have to do
do all the hard labour, they were not protected by sumerian law
Sumerians made _____, the world’s oldest law code
the Code of Ur Nummaru
Main provisions of the sumerian law (3)
- kings got their power from gods and had duties to protect the people
- rules for slave trade
- punishments of criminals
Code of ______ dealt with ___, ____, ____, _____
Hammurabi; marriage, tade, slavery, property
Sumerians invented the world’s first writing called_____
cuneiform
Writings of ____ developed from sumerian writing
western asian peoples
Sumerins invented ____ (maths)
sexagesmal
what is a cricle according to sumerians
360degrees
sumerians recorded ___ movement
star
sumerians made the world’s first ____ system
calendar
