Sumerians developed this in 3250 BCE
Belief in many gods
Laws engraved in stone and placed in a public location.
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
was the king of the city-state of Babylon. About 1800BC, He conquered the nearby city-states and created the kingdom of Babylonia
Long Poems that tell stories of heroes
What level were the peasant farmers at.
First know civiliation of people in 3500 BCE.
Epic of ______
A pyramid shaped temple tower
There were _____ different characters to memorize
Land with different territories and people under single rule
The division on a society by rank and class
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Sumerians first used this to help with tranportation in 3250
A large arc of rich, or fertile farm land
The ruling family was at what level of the class system
The world’s first system of writing
Most scribes were ________ of government officials, priests and wealthy merchants
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it.
Hammurabi writes this in 1758
The ruler of a kingdom
the Sumerians had invented the earliest known form of writing called
The Sumerians employed a sharp-pointed instrument- called a
were society’s record keepers and served the needs of the temple, royal government and businesses.
