Classics_August 30 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Mesopotamia means _________________
The land between the two rivers
By the end of the Neolithic Period, cities had begun to me more common, especially in the area we call the ______ ________
Fertile Crescent
_____ _____ ____ and Katherine Wooley began their excavations in UR in 192 with the help of Iraqi archeologist ________.
Sir Leornard Woolley; Hamoudi
The ___________ built the first cities in the southern part of Mesopotamia known as _______ , around ___________
Sumerians; Sumer; 4,000 BCE
These city-states were fed by two rivers, the _____ and the _______
Tigress; Euphrates
Two tombs, called the ___ ____ were almost entirely intact.
Royal Tombs
In addition to these technologies, the Sumerians also developed one of the most important inventions: ______ ______
written language
Also among Queen Puabi’s possessions was an artifact known as the ______ ______ _______.
Standard of Ur. (a music box/amp. It reverberates sound)
In addition to writing down their history, literature and letters, the Mesopotamians also recorded their _____ on stone.
laws
These cities were each built around enormous temples called ______, the place where a city’s god(s) lived.
ziggurats
As social complexity increased, with growing popluations,, the Sumerians needed a way to ________ _______ _______.
keep accurate records
By 3,000 BCE, many Mesopoamian cities had populations over 10,0000. And more than _______ people lived in _____!
50,000; Uruk
One of the most astonishing discoveries at Ur was the tomb of ______ ______.
Queen Puabi
Wooley’s excavations encountered evidence of a ____ _____ in UR. Hediscovered a _____ ____ that stretched 400 miles long by 100 miles wide!
major flooding; flood stratum
The Sumerians also being to ________ their cities for the first time in this period (the Bronze Age).
fortify
TRACE
technology, religion, art, society, environment
The ziggurats acted like ____, ____ and ______. Even the En had to repay loans, keep records and obey the law.
banks, archives, courtrooms
By 2700 BCE, the Sumerians had access to many important Bronze Age technologies, including _______, _____, and ______- _____ for pottery and for carts.
bronze-making; irrigation; wheels-wheels
These early cities included _____ and ______.
Uruk; Erid
Hammurabi’s code divides the population into _____ _______: people that own land; people that don?t own land; slaves
three classes
______ is thought to be the ____ ____ __ ____ in the world. ______ means wedge-shaped.
cuneiform; earliest system of writing; cuneiform
_______ was the En or priest king of Babylon from 1792-1750 BCE.
Hammurabi
Thanks to the efforts of ______ ______, we are able to read cuneiform scripts.
Henry Rawlinson
Cuneiform was written on ______ _______. Once fired in a kiln, the texts were permanent.
clay tablets
