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Mesopotamia

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What kept rivers from flooding?

Levee, canal, ditches, irrigation

What makes Hammurabi's code unique?

First written law, very detailed

Who created the first advanced society?

Sumerians

Long piece of poetry about heroes

Epic

religious temple

Ziggurat

What did Sargon establish?

First empire and army

What is the green region called

Fertile Crescent

What is this

ziggurat

What is this

city state

two most important physical features

Tigris and Euphrates

first system of writing

Cuneiform

What Is Sumerian religion?

polytheism

What is the benefit of flooding?

Deliver silt

How was social class taken into account in Hammurabi's code?

greater crime to hurt a rich man than a poor man

whos in 1?

slaves/criminals

Who's in 5

kings