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Chapter 2 study guide
Farmers in Sumer used dikes to keep flooding rivers within their banks.
As a result of a food surplus in Sumer, a complex division of labor developed.
The first collection of laws was written by Hammurabi.
An important difference between the religious beliefs of Abraham and those of the
people of Mesopotamia is that Abraham practiced monotheism.
Bartering was most affected by the coining of money.
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is Mesopotamia
A Ziggurat was a religious temple in Sumer
A monarchy is a type of government, usually with a king or queen as the ruler.
A scribe was a person in Sumerian society whose job it was to write.
Wedge shaped letters written on soft clay tablets is known as Cuneiform
The first person to rule an empire in Mesopotamia was Sargon.
The Babylonian ruler who established a tax system to support the government was
Hammurabi.
Moses was the leader of the isrelites who led them out of Egypt.
The Phoenicians were the people who invented a system of writing based on
symbols that stood for sounds
Sumer was located in Mesopotamia. The two rivers in Sumer were the Tigris and
Euphrates. To control the rivers the Sumerians dug canals and built dikes. There
were twelve city-states in Sumer. The government in each city state was a
monarchy. In the center of each city state was a large ziggurat, or religious temple,
made of mud bricks. Agriculture was the main way people make a living. When
they produced more food than they needed to stay alive, they had a surplus. A
division of labor came about when not all people had to work at producing food and
some could do other jobs.