Today in class, we reviewed for the 75 point test/quiz about Mesopotamia:

  • Cuneiform- First form of writing
  • Fertile Crescent- 2 rivers flooded to cause silt (good soil) and good access to water.
  • Modern day fertile crescent- Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Tigris, Euphrates
  • Wheat and Barley was grown in the fertile crescent 
  • City State- Form of government that is set up to control cities and surrounding areas
  • Dynasty- Kings and rulers that get passed through families 
  • Cultural Diffusion- The spread of ideas and materials from one place/culture to another
  • Irrigation- Controlling where water goes
  • Polytheism- Belief in multiple gods (many gods were based off animals and nature)
  • monarchy- one ruler like a king
  • ziggurat- town hall and place of worship
  • silt- rich soil caused by flooding of the rivers
  • The same people control the government and religion
  • Gilgamesh- A king
  • Epic of Gilgamesh- Story of a flood like Noah and the arch
  • Paleolithic- old Stone Age- hunters and gathers 
  • Neolithic- New Stone Age- beginning of advanced tools and agriculture 
  • Hammurabi's code- 282 laws, let the punishment fit the crime, carved into big pillars around town
  • The prologue of the code set out the goals for this body of laws.

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