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| 221564819 | Civic duty | The well-being of many people (society) was more important than the right of the individual person. | |
| 221564820 | Honesty | Severe punishment were given to those who accused an innocent person of a crime. | |
| 221566967 | Hierarchy | There were different punishment for the same crime, based on the guilty person's gender (male or female) and social class (how much power and wealth they had). | |
| 221566968 | Harsh punishment | Guilty people recieved harsh punishment based on retailiation; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth | |
| 221566969 | Epic of Gilgamesh | World's oldest story | |
| 221721025 | Cuneiform | Sumerian writing | |
| 221721026 | Sumer inventions | Irrigation system, wagon wheel, plow, sailboat, mathematics/geometry, number system based on 60, and 12 month calender. | |
| 221721027 | Stela | A large stone slab with writing carved on it (had Hammurabi's code on it) | |
| 221721028 | Y early civiliations started in river valleys | Floods left silt which equals fertile soil, fish for food, freshwater (drinking, irrigation), easy to travel, and easy to trade goods and ideas. | |
| 221721029 | Services governments provided | Organize food supple, organize building projects, develope laws, and organize armies. | |
| 221721030 | Tigirs and Euphrates River | Which two rivers did the civiliation in mesopotamia develope. | |
| 221721031 | The land between the rivers | What does "Mesopotamia" mean | |
| 221721032 | Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf | Mesopotamis is part of a large area called the Fertile Crescent; which two bodies of water does it stretch between. | |
| 221721033 | Cities | As agriculture surplus increased, what larger form of settlement develope. | |
| 221721034 | City-state | An independant state made up of a city and the land surrrounding farmland and villages.They are not part of any larger unit, they rule themselves. | |
| 221721035 | Nation | Which is larger, a nation or a city-state. | |
| 221741910 | Built walls and organized armies | How did Sumerian city-states protect themselves from attacks by other city-states. | |
| 221741911 | Polytheism, believing in more than 1 god | Sumerian's religous beliefs. | |
| 221741912 | Less chance of a civil war | What is the advantage in a hereditary system for choosing a king. | |
| 221741913 | mud-brick | Most common material used to constuct buildings in Sumer. | |
| 221741914 | Farming | What most people did for a living in Sumer. | |
| 221741915 | Upper class, middle class, and lower class | What are the three social classes in sumer | |
| 221741916 | Upper class | Kings, priests, and government officials | |
| 221741917 | Middle class | Farmers, artisians, fishers, and merchants | |
| 221741918 | Lower class | Slaves | |
| 221741919 | How people became slaves | Captured during war, punishment for a crime, born to slave parents, and sold into slavery to pay pff their debts. | |
| 221741920 | 2 ways men had more power | They could go to school and headed the households (though both could run their own business) | |
| 221741921 | Y Mesop is called the cradle of civiliations | Was the world's first civiliation abd had many ideas and invenstions used by other, later civiliations from mesopotamia | |
| 221741922 | No longer ruled themselves | How the Akkadian empire was different from Sumerian city-states | |
| 221741923 | Y Hammurabi's code was important | 1) It covered so many aspects (parts)of people lives, 2) everyone was forced to follow the same laws, 3) was written down so everyone could see it. | |
| 221741924 | Greece, Rome, and US | Three civiliations that borrowed from Hammurabi's code | |
| 221741925 | How Hamm got the laws for his legal code | He took what he believed were the best laws from each city-state and put them in one code | |
| 221741926 | Similarities between Ham and our laws | They are written, they apply to (almost) everyone, they state what is wrong and what is the punishment, and they reflect the society's ideas of the right and wrong. | |
| 221741927 | Differences between Ham and our laws | Different classes recieved different punishments, much harshier punishment, and family members are punished. | |
| 221741928 | How Sumerians write | Made hundreds of wedge shaped marks cut onto damp clay tablets with sharp-ended reeds | |
| 221741929 | Ziggurat | A huge temple with giant tiers like on a wedding cake and usually dominated the city. At the top was a shrine, 1 entrance, and held the city's treasure. | |
| 221741930 | Shrine | A special place to worship that only priest and prestesses could enter. |
