Ancient Mesopotamia

How would you fare as an Ancient Mesopotamian? (Choose the answer that best represents your feelings.)

• I would kick a*s starting my own farm, and I would enjoy it.

• I would just be so angry about how unfair my life was.

• I prefer the civilization I live in to be already built, a long time ago, by other people.

• I guess I wouldn't know anything different, so it would be fine.

Draw a picture of Ancient Mesopotamian life, including as many of the aspects we've learned about as you can.

Which of the following statements are true about this?

• That's a pyramid.

• It's supposed to look like a mountain.

• It's a religious structure.

• It's a religious structure that's supposed to look like a mountain.

Around 3,500 B.C.E., Mesopotamian farmers invented this technique for bringing more water to crops.

This technique of bringing water to crops gave some farmers a _______, meaning that they had more crops than they needed.

Describe the ways that being able to produce a surplus caused Mesopotamian to transform into the first civilization.

Draw the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers on this map.

Hammurabi's Code was the world's first [five letters] _____ system.

Which of the following is NOT a law included in Hammurabi's code?

• If a man has been taken prisoner, and there is no food in his house, and his wife enters the house of another; then that woman bears no blame.

• If he has destroyed the eye of a plebian, or broken the bone of a plebian, he shall be injured moderately in eye or bone.

• If a man's wife be surprised with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.

• If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.

Which of the following describes this image?

• The king Hammurabi is seated to pay respect to Shamash the sun god.

• Hammurabi's Code claims that Hammurabi is equal to a god.

• The sun god Shamash is shown as bigger than the king Hammurabi.

• None of the above.