Assyrians
Assyria lays north of this.
What is Babylon.
What writing did the Sumerians invent?
What is Cuneiform.
Who was Babylon´s ruler?
Who is King Hammurabi.
What empire did Cyrus originally rule?
What is Persian empire.
What gave Mesopotamia it's name (The land between rivers)?
What is the Tigris river and the Euphrates river.
What is Calvary.
Who were the first rulers in Sumer?
What are priests.
Why did King Hammurabi create the Code of Hammurabi?
What is he wanted everyone to be treated fairly.
Why did Cyrus use camels at the front line to attack the rich kingdom of Lydia?
What is he used camels because horses are afraid of the smell camels and run away,the Lydian empire had many horses.
Where is modern day Mesopotamia?
What is Iraq.
The kind of materials used to make their swords.
What is iron.
What were the temples in Sumer called?
What are Ziggurats.
Around when was Babylonia a great empire?
When is around 2000-1100 B.C.
Why did Cyrus take power of Persia?
What was the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer.
What was the first story not written for record keeping in Assyria?
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh
They practiced the belief in more than one god,that is called what?
What is Polytheism.
They studied astronomy, what is astronomy?
What is Astronomy is the study of the universe, including the movement of the stars and planets.
How did Cyrus get into Persia?
What is he drained the Euphrates river with trenches.
Why did it stop raining for months in Mesopotamia?
What is The hot sun baked the ground and rivers.
Around how many provinces there were.
What is around 70.
The Sumerians developed many things but they did develop Bronze, how did they make Bronze?
What is mixing copper and tin.
They created two major buildings one for a goddess and one is one of the seven wonders of the world, originally made for the rulers wife, what were these two buildings called?
What is The Gate Of Ishtar and Hanging Gardens Of Babylon.
When he attacked with camels he attacked Lydia what is Lydia in the present day?
What is Turkey
What foothills are in Northern Mesopotamia?
What is Taurus and Zagros?