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Social Hierarchy Vocabulary

Government and Written

Law

Random Questions Potpourri

The US social hierarchy is based on this

Wealth

List the 3 Mesopotamian classes from top to bottom in

order.

Amelu, Mushkinu, Wardu

The Mesopotamian social hierarchy is

based on this.

Jobs

The bottom of social hierarchies was usually

comprised of whom.

Slaves

Trades people and businessmen comprised this

Mesopotamian level.

Mushkinu

Artificially bringing water to land for increasing plant

growth.

Irrigation

A public clerk whose job is to copy down

information.

Scribe

The slaves or lowest class in Mesopotamia

Wardu

Define Ziggurat

Mesopotamian religious temple at the

center of a city

A place with surrounding countryside that has the same leader of religious, political,

economic, and cultural life.

City-State

King who created Mesopotamian written

code of law.

Hammurabi

Why was Hammurabi’s code an

achievement?

It was the first code of laws to apply to

everyone

Hammurabi said this about his code of laws.

The god’s told him to create it.

Why do civilizations have a code of law?

Used to guide life and control the population

A nickname for the punishments dictated by

Hammurabi’s code.

An eye for an eye.

What is the #1 Rule for station’s work?

FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS!!!

What did surplus food allow the Mesopotamian

civilization to have?

Different Jobs/Specialized

Workers

Why did Mesopotamians keep

records?

Recorded traded goods; amounts of barley in the

temple; etc

Name two technologies that came out of

Mesopotamia

The arch and the wheel

Name the most important building and

its location in a Mesopotamian city-

state

Ziggurat; Center

What was one of the King’s most important jobs in Mesopotamia?

Running the Army

What was the Mesopotamians view of

the afterlife?

There was none, just a dark underworld. Life was to please the gods

Mesopotamia is located between which two

rivers?

Tigris and Euphrates

What was the problem that ancient

Mesopotamians faced when they moved down to

the rivers?

Floods and Droughts. Uncontrolled water supply

What is an ARVC?

Ancient River Valley Civilization