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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