Babylonia & Sumer
Which is the correct order of developments in Mesopotamian civilizations, starting with the earliest?
Specialization
Irrigation
Food Surplus
Irrigation, food surplus, specialization
Mesopotamian farmers used irrigation and dams to produce a food _______ , or additional crops for later use.
Surplus
Which sea were the Phoenicians on the coast of?
Mediterranean
Who did the Assyrians conquer?
Babylonians
What is cultural diffusion?
The spread of ideas, products, and culture between groups.
What geographic feature of Mesopotamia promoted the growth of civilization?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Sumerians had a belief system known as ________ in which they worshipped multiple gods.
Polytheism
What color dye was seen as royalty and where did it come from?
Purple and it came from a specific sea snail
Which physical feature did the Assyrian Empire include that the Neo-Bablylonian Empire did not?
The Nile River
Which is the correct chronological order of Fertile Crescent empires?
Assyrian, Akkadian, Phoenician, Neo-Babylonian
Akkadian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Phoenician
How did Sargon build the first empire in Mesopotamia?
Conquering Sumers weak cities
Akkadian rulers forced people to make payments called _______ to the ruler to show submission.
Tributes
What was the Phoenician economy based on?
Trading and setting up colonies/trading posts
Why were the Assyrians considered harsh?
Splitting families up, impalement, and other cruel punishments, merciless.
Why was writing such an important development in early civilization?
It allowed people to communicate in different ways, keep records, write laws, etc....
What is cuneiform and what are two uses of this?
Cuneiform is a system of writing and they used it for writing laws and keeping records.
Sargon ruled Akkad and conquered Sumerian city-states to form the world’s first
Empire
What important contribution did the Phoenicians make to later civilizations?
The Alphabet
Whose is typically apart of the upper class?
Kings, Priests and Government officials.
Choose two or three key developments of ancient civilizations. How did these developments help advance civilization in the Fertile Crescent?
Writing, alphabet, irrigation systems, law codes, 12 month calendar, seasons, etc...
What caused the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
The King died and many weak leaders followed alongside poor farming.
A __________ was a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top to honor the city-state’s chief god.
Ziggurat
Why were Phoenicians called the middlemen of the Sea?
They were the center of most trade and trading was their lifestyle
Who allied with the Babylonians to defeat the Assyrians?
Medes
How were these and other laws of Hammurabi’s designed to protect people who had little power in society?
Hammurabi's laws were protect people with little power by having everyone able to read the laws and provide equal punishments to the crime.