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mesopotamia (hammurabi (stele (has a king facing god the god of sun, had…
mesopotamia
hammurabi
stele
has a king facing god the god of sun
had the laws
if a man puts out the eye of another man his eye should be put out
he spent the first 29 years of his rule working on domestic improvements
hammurabi's code
had all the laws of his empire
helped bring justice to every day life
helped lay down laws about agriculture and the buying and selling of goods
in court people were innocent until proven guilty
fertile crescent
they had good soil for farming
sumer
they made canals to move water
they had gates to control water
sargon the great
his mother was a royal priestess
his mom abandoned him as a baby
a gardener raised him after finding him in a basket floating in a river
he lived in kish
he was a servant that served the king
then he was a ruler
he took control of northern mesopotamia
he made the worlds first empire
then he took over ALL of mesopotamia
he ruled akkadian empire from akkad
hie epire was to big to control
they had a lot of villages
each village worshiped a different god but they were all connected
each village has a ziggurat to worship their gods is