Mesopotamia Notes
Mesopotamia Notes
Chapters 2-4
Chapter 2 Notes
Western Asia and Egypt
Impact of Geography
The rivers flood Irrigation systems
control water supply abundance of
crops produced people are able to
create civilizations.
Review:
What role did geography play in the
development of Mesopotamian civilization?
The land was fertile due to the flooding of
the rivers. This allowed civilizations to
develop.
According to
Sumerians, human
beings were created to
do manual labor that
the gods were unwilling
to do themselves.
Review: what role did
the physical
environment play in the
way Mesopotamians
viewed the world?
Review
Write a paragraph (5 sentences)
explaining how the Sumerians,
Akkadians and Babylonians have
impacted the course of human
history.
What did their societies develop that
we still use today? Think technology,
government and economics.
Hammurabis Code
The most
complete law
from
Mesopotamia
Punishments
could be
extremely
severe.
22
If a man has committed highway
robbery and has been caught, that
man should be put to death.
25
If fire broke out in a free mans house
and a free man, who went to
extinguish it, cast his eye on the
goods of the owner of the house and
has appropriated the goods of the
owner of the house, that free man
shall be thrown into that fire.
196
If a free man has destroyed the eye
of a member of the aristocracy, they
shall destroy his eye.