Mesopotamia

Question 1

What are the two rivers in mesopotamia

Answer 1

Euphrates and Tigris

Question 2

What kind of civilization was mesopotamia

Answer 2

river valley civilization

Question 3

what kind of climate was there

Answer 3

hot and dry

Question 4

how were the rivers

Answer 4

rivers had a habit of flooding violently and unpredictably

Question 5

why was Mesopotamia politically disjointed

Answer 5

because it was hard to communicate due to the rivers

Question 6

How were the ethnicities and lingustics

Answer 6

they had different ethnicities and diverse languages

Question 7

Who were the sumerians?

Answer 7

first group of people that developed urbanism

Question 8

what was a ziggurat

Answer 8

religious sanctuary, political center, and an economic center

Question 9

what was their writing

Answer 9

cuneiform

Question 10

what was cuneiform?

Answer 10

their documentation, wedge writing

Question 11

Who knew how to read cuneiform?

Answer 11

Rich people because they had the money to learn it

Question 12

What kind of writing was cuneiform?

Answer 12

it was composed of symbols to represent letters and words. Its supposed to tell a story.

Question 13

Why were all the cities walled?

Answer 13

To keep the enemies out, and the constant threats of war

Question 14

What was the purpose of war?

Answer 14

for raw necessities, or because of the river

Question 15

What was mesopotamia composed of?

Answer 15

city-states

Question 16

What city states were there at this time?

Answer 16

Ur, Uruk, Akkad, Kish, and Babylon

Question 17

Who was the first emperor

Answer 17

Sargon, he defeated other city-states around him and exploited them for their resources.

Question 18

What empire did Sargon create?

Answer 18

Akkadian Empire, and it collapsed in a century/generation

Question 19

What were the two main ethnicities?

Answer 19

sumerians (sumer civilization) akkadians (akkad civilization)

Question 20

Who culturally influenced the akkadians

Answer 20

the sumerians

Question 21

What kind of language does akkadians have?

Answer 21

semantic language

Question 22

What were the two texts in mesopotamia?

Answer 22

Code of Hummurabi and Epic of Gilgimesh

Question 23

What was the code of hammurabi

Answer 23

highly structured, only complete law code we have from that time

Question 24

What can Hammurabi’s code tell us?

Answer 24

Issues and attempts at resolving them, their gender norms, role of the king, politics in mesopotamia, and laws governing tade/commerce, and crimes and punishments

Question 25

What was political legitimacy based on at this time?

Answer 25

Claiming relation to the gods.

Question 26

What was the relationship with the gods?

Answer 26

Do for me and I will do for you, tit for tat

Question 27

What did the code include?

Answer 27

Administration of justice, property, irrigation, loans, intrests, debt slavery, marriage, family, personal injury and manslaughter

Question 28

What is a city-state?

Answer 28

a city that governs themselves.

Question 29

What does the epic tell us?

Answer 29

gives us insights into the role of monarchy, relationship with their subjects, expected norms and duties, religion and gods, and afterlife

Question 30

What was the relationship between humans and gods?

Answer 30

Sacrificial, quit pro quo

Question 31

What is anthropomorphic

Answer 31

human-like gods

Question 32

What was the afterlife like?

Answer 32

They thought it was brutal and bleak. Complete opposite of life, bad clothes and bad food

Question 33

Who was in the afterlife?

Answer 33

Everyone was equal in death, no matter who you were when you were alive

Question 34

What did they document with cuneiform?

Answer 34

used to record what they had in surplus. Also used to record their laws, religion, and culture