Technology
Trading
Empire Building
Culture
Grab Bag
100
This invention increased the amount of farmland in the Fertile Crescent by bringing water to fields.
What are irrigation canals?
100
A shared money system that made trade between city-states easier.
What is a common currency?
100
By conquering Sumerian city-states, Sargon was gradually creating the first one of these.
What is an empire?
100
A Sumerian temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
100
Which of the following best describes the soil of the Fertile Crescent? Unproductive, rich, dry, or rocky.
What is rich?
200
This heavy metal, used by the Assyrians, made strong weapons.
What is iron?
200
Trade led to the spread of this invention of the Phoenicians.
What is the alphabet?
200
This was a result of fighting among the Sumerian city-states.
What is the unification of Sumer? (Sargon's conquest of Sumer)
200
How Sumerian sculptures differed from earlier sculptures.
What are more realistic looking people?
200
Replaced Sumerian priests as the leaders of city-states.
What are kings?
300
Phoenicians relied on this technology to get the resources they needed.
What is a boat?
300
A good brought into a country.
What is an import?
300
Phoenicians in search of natural resources not found in their homeland sometimes moved to these faraway places, ruled by their civilization.
What are colonies?
300
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on clay tablets, entirely in this written language.
What is cuneiform?
300
The world's first civilization.
What is Sumer?
400
New technology could be exchanged between merchants without this use of money. This method of trade is called...
What is bartering?
400
The Phoenicians often imported this kind of good (it comes straight from the earth).
What are raw materials?
400
Sargon was the emperor of this empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
400
A Mesopotamian relief sculpture is often found on this type of standing, carved stone slab or pillar.
What is a stele?
400
The idea that everyone must obey the law.
What is the Rule of Law?
500
People who rode horses in battle.
What is a cavalry?
500
Phoenicians turned their imports into this kind of good that could then be exported at a higher price.
What are manufactured goods?
500
Both Hammurabi and Sargon believed that putting these people in charge would help to unify their empires.
Who are their own loyal subjects?
500
The spread of the Phoenician alphabet to Greece and eventually Rome is an example of this.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
Conquered peoples paid tribute based on the wealth of their city-state under this Persian Emperor.
Who is Darius the Great?
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