Babylon

Match the ancient civilizations we learned about to the facts about them:

Groups:

(a) Sumerians in Mesopotamia

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(b) Ancient Egypt

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(c) Andes Civilization

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(d) Maya in Mesoamerica

• Built stadiums

• Wrote on clay tablets

• Played a ball game

• Conquered by Akkadians and Amorites

• Used cuneiform writing

• Figured out how to make bronze

• Made beautiful pottery

• Domesticated llama and alpaca

• Invented wheel

• Wrote on papyrus

• Had a 260 day calendar based on Venus

• Believed spirits could harm or help

• Popol Vuh

• The Book of the Dead

• Draw Nazca lines

• Used hieroglyphics

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• Weavers created clothes

• Mummified their rulers in sarcofagi

• Divided into Lower and Upper parts

Match the following people to the civilizations they are associated with:

• Mesopotamia

• Hunahpu & Xbalanque

• Babylon

• Hatshepsut

• Ancient Egypt

• Sargon the Great

• Maya

• Hammurabi

Match the images of those people to their names and civilizations:

• Hatshepsut from Ancient Egypt

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• Sargon the Great, an Akkadian

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• Hammurabi in Babylon

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• Hunahpu & Xbalanque, Hero Twins in Maya

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Find the ancient city of Babylon

Hammurabi was Akkadian.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Sargon the Great was Akkadian. Hammurabi was Amorite.

How many rules did the Code of Hammurabi have?

• 347

• 282

• 439

• 264

According to the Code of Hammurabi: If the house ​ (a)   , the ​​ (b)   will be put to ​ (c)   .

• collapsed
• builder
• death
• resident
• trial
• sleep
• burned

If someone died after the surgery, a (a)   was punished.

Hammurabi had something special in his code that we still consider very important today. In the Code of Hammurabi, people were ​ (a)   until proven ​ (b)   .

• innocent
• guilty
• imprisoned
• punished
• trialed

What were some of the important things related to The Code of Hammurabi?

• You could get punished before proven guilty of serious crimes.

• It prevented people from committing serious crimes, because they got severely punished for doing these things.

• You were innocent until proven guilty.

• It granted more right to children.

• It granted more rights to women.