Today in class, we took notes on Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. We had to incorporate question number 5 into this blog. Below is the question and answer from today and key definitions.
What areas of life did Hammurabi's code cover?
It covers community, family relations, business conduct, and crimes. For example, if a thief snatched someone in the middle of the night and was caught, he or she would face a punishment for the crime.
Fertile Crescent- the region's curved shape and the richness of the land.
Mesopotamia- the lands facing the Mediterranean Sea and a plain.
silt- a thick bed of mud.
city-state- each city and the surrounding land it had controlled.
dynasty- a series of rulers from a single family.
cultural diffusion- process in which a new idea or a product spread from one culture to another.
polytheism- belief in more than one god.
empire- an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
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