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MESOPOTAMIA
Question | Answer |
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Sumerians. | Sumer lay between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in what the Greeks later called Mesopotamia, meaning “land between two rivers”. |
Lower Mesopotamia | occupied by the Sumer and Akkadian civilizations |
Upper Mesopotamia | (occupied by Assyrians |
cuneiform | cuneiform, was invented to account for something unglamorous, but very important — surplus commodities: bushels of barley, numbers of cows, and jars of oil! |
Hammurabi | Hammurabi was the sixth king in the Babylonian dynasty, who ruled in central Mesopotamia |
Hammurabi code | But the code is also one of the earliest examples of an accused person being considered innocent until proven guilty. |
rules | If a slave strikes its owner, his ear will be cut off. If a man hits a pregnant woman, and the baby dies, he must pay ten shekels for her |