Transcript Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia
Lessons 1-3
Military leaders rose to power as kings in the
Sumerian city-states because they
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Protected the city-states from enemies.
Built walls to keep out invaders
Conquered the city-states
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The ancient Sumerians handled
climate problems by
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Creating an
irrigation system
Harvesting crops
at a different time
of the year
Giving up farming
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The climate of the Mesopotamian
plain included
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Hot, dry weather
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Rain and flooding
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Hot, dry, summers
with flooding in
spring and fall.
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At first the ancient Sumerian city-states were
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Priests
Administrators
Nomads
Sargon
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Made the worlds first empire by
conquering the Sumerian city-states.
Became the 1st king by murdering the king
of Kish, taking his throne and building his
own army.
Shamshi-Adad
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Built the Assyrian empire into a trade and
military power.
Hammurabi
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Developed and made public an organized
system of laws
Created the Babylonian Empire and came
to rule all of Mesopotamia
Worker who is skilled in making a particular
product by hand.
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City-state
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Artisan
Cuneiform
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Broad area of flat open land
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Plateau
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Epic
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Long poem that tells a story of a
hero
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Wedged shaped characters used in
writing.
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Cuneiform
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Self governing unit consisting of a city and its
surrounding villages and farmland.
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 What
were some important
advances that the Sumerians
made in new technology?
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Sumerians created irrigation systems
They developed the plow, the sailboat, and
the wheel.
They made bronze tools and weapons.
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did the Sumerians’ forms
of writing change over time?
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The Sumerians first kept track of trade with
tokens stored in clay bullae?
Later, they marked the outside of the bullae
with symbols to show how many tokens were
inside.
These were pictographs, pictures that stand
for words or ideas.
Finally they developed the similar, wedge
shaped symbols of cuneiform.
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following words of Hammurabi
were carved on a large stone slab: “I
have brought justice to all my
subjects.” How is it true that
Hammurabi brought justice to all his
subjects? How is it not true?
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Hammurabi developed an organized system
of laws.
He made the laws available for everyone to
read.
Therefore, they could not be punished for no
reason.
The laws varied according to people’s
positions in society.