Hammurabi

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.