Mesopotamia Flashcards
What two rivers are surrounding Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
What continent Mesopotamia is located
Asia
Southern region of Mesopotamia
Sumer
Used to write down what is said in court
Scribe
Decides what happens to people
Judge
used as envelopes to seal laws
Clay
used to make houses
bricks
writing based on pictures
cuneiform
a temple with a tower
Ziggurat
a conqerer of Sumerians
Hammurabi
a city and its formland
City states
how many city states are there
12
someone who trades, second social class
merchant
someone of high social standing
noble
apart of the lowest social class
slaves
country Mesopotamia is today
iraq
the leading city of ancient mesopotamia, means the gate of the gods
babylon
how many social classes are there
3
studies planets and stars
astronomers
invention used to prepare their fields for planting
plow
invention used to supports heavy walls over doorways and windows
arch
another invention
wheel
who lived in ancient mesopotamia, first people to write down laws
sumerians
the worship of many gods
polythiesm
worshiped many
gods
what social class were preists in
first
what did preists do
managed the gods land, directed worship, and governed the city
was located in the middle of every city
temples
they thought after they died they would go to___ and sit quietly in a dark cave filled with dust and clay
netherworld
run by preists and set up in temples
schools
only ___ received an education
upper class boys
what would happen to a doctor who let a patient die in surgery
hand gets cut off
___ different symbols in the cuneiform writing
600
____ were made when people got married, bought or sold something, etc.
contracts
it is illegal to tax
orphans
individual city states sometimes ___ against each other
fought wars
the sumerians feared their gods because they believed that the gods had the power to destroy their cities with
floods
because plenty of ___ was being produced, many people were able to work as traders and artisans
food
the sumerians wrote on clay because they did not know how to make
paper
most people of sumer were
farmers
the sumerians divided a ___ into 360 degrees
circle
the hanging gardens were called one of the___
seven wonders of the world
a set of laws which all people had to obey
code of hammurabi
