Quiz Question: What is the area of rich soil and water that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?
The Fertile Crescent
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What is the phrase used to describe the guiding principle for the laws in Hammurabi's Code?
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
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Name one reason why the Assyrian army was successful?
50,000 soldiers, iron weapons, brutal to enemies and included infantry, cavalry and charioteers
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Which two empires gained control of the Fertile Crescent?
The Akkadian Empire and the Babylonian Empire.
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Lesson Review: How does a strong king become an emperor?
To become an emperor, a king must conquer lands outside his own and control them with a single government.
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Lesson Review: Why did Hammurabi think his empire needed a single code of law?
He ruled many lands with many different peoples, and he wanted to gain control of the lands by making his subjects feel like they were being treated fairly.
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What was the role of women in the Sumerian society?
Most Sumerian women cared for their children and ran their household.
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Name the two rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
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Why were scribes important to the Sumerians?
They recorded business transactions, literature, history and there were only a few of them
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Sumerians created a way of writing called...
cuneiform
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What is a ziggurat?
A large temple that was considered the god's home in Sumerian city-states.
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Lesson Review: What was one basic idea about the law did Hammurabi's Code set up?
The code set up the idea that the government was responsible for what happens in society and that society should be run by the rule of law.
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Why is Mesopotamia also called the "cradle of civilization"?
It included the first civilization and was the beginning of organized human society.
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Name two inventions of the Sumerians.
wheel, cart, chariot, sailboat, plow, potter's wheel, bronze, place-value system of numbers, system based on 60, 12 month calendar, multiplication & division
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Quiz Question: What did Hammurabi create to help him control and rule his empire?
The Code of Law
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Quiz Question: What was a written set of rules that people were required to obey?
