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City – States of
Mesopotamia
Mr. Folkersma
World History
Sault Area High School
Mesopotamia
 “The

Land Between the Rivers”
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
 Thought
to be the location of the Garden of
Eden.
 Located in Modern Day Iraq
 Land
was fertile, and produce an surplus
of food.
Assignment Part 1:
Problems
 Identify
the issues
that Sumerians
faced with living in
Mesopotamia
Solutions
 Explain
the
solutions that the
Sumerians came
up with to solve
their issues.
Hint: Sec 1 – Page 29 & 30
City-States
 Functioned
as independent country
 Cities were surrounded by fields of barley
and wheat
 Priest and Rulers controlled the city-states

Sometimes they were military led.
Assignment Part 2:
 Discuss



what Sumerian Culture was like:
Religion
Society
Science and Technology
 Three
Key points for each subtopic
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
8. If a man has stolen an ox, a sheep, a pig,
or a boat that belonged to a temple or
palace, he shall repay thirty times its cost. If
it belonged to a private citizen, he shall
repay ten times. If the thief cannot pay, he
shall be put to death.
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
196. If a man put out the eye of another man,
his eye shall be put out.
198. If he puts out he eye of a freed man or
break the bone of a free man, he shall pay one
gold mina.
199. If he put out the eye of a man’s slave, or
break the bone of a man’s slave, he shall pay
one-half of its value.