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The number of laws in Hammurabi's Code
282
True or false: Everyone cold communicate with the gods
false
True or false: Sumerians believed that their lives were controlled by the gods
True
True or false: Kings did not have high social class
False
True or false: Mesopotamians did not have social classes
False
An arrangement in which people in a community specialize in a specific task
Division of labor
Name of the large arc of rich farmland land that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
The Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamian buildings and walls were constructed from what material?
Mud/clay bricks
What is the system that brought river water to the Sumerian fields?
irrigation
Why were there walls around the city states in Mesopotamia?
To protect them from enemies
What were independent cities with their own government and ziggurat called?
City states
What modern day country is currently where Mesopotamia once was?
Iraq
What was the main export in Mesopotamia?
Crops/agriculture
13. Sumerians practiced __________, the belief in many gods
polytheism
Sumerians formed the world’s first ______ , or governing system ruled by a king or a queen.
Monarchy
Most early river civilizations, such as Mesopotamia, developed on the CONTINENT of ____________________.
Asia
As floodwaters drained, they deposited soil and tiny rocks on the land to form a new layer of _________________.
silt
What Mesopotamian invention made transportation along water easier?
The sailboat
What was a Mesopotamian invention that made transportation on land easier?
the wheel
Sargon was the ruler of which people?
Akkadians
King Hammurabi was the ruler of which people?
Babylonians
What is the name of the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
The land between two rivers
Name that means you worship multiple gods or deities
polytheistic
A temple where Sumerians believed their gods and goddesses lived.
ziggurat
What was the name of the person that records things for others?
scribe
True or False: Sumerians believed in only one god
False
True or False: Sumerians made temples called ziggurats
True
What was the Sumerian style of writing called?
Cuneiform
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