Sumerians
They created this form of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
Babylonians perfected this building unit made of mud.
What are bricks?
They revolutionized writing with the invention of this, consisting of 22 characters.
What is the alphabet?
They kept it a secret for 400 years.
What is smelting iron?
Assumed name of the first great Assyrian king.
Who was Sargon II?
Invention that changed transportation forever.
What is the wheel?
These are the two main rivers that run through the empire.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
It means "seagoing" to characterize a sea-based culture.
What is maritime?
Sea that they lived near before moving south into the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Black Sea?
Culture of people they enslaved, more than once.
Who were the Hebrews?
Word for a moon-based calendar.
What is lunar?
Built by Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, this is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
Type of purple dye that made the Phoenicians very rich.
What is Tyrian (or Imperial) purple?
Epic battle with the Egyptians.
What is Kadesh (or Qadesh)?
Ultimate weapon on a wheeled platform - could be called the first "tank."
What is the battering ram?
Water for crops was essential. The Sumerians figured out how to do this.
What is irrigation?
Ancient Babylonian king who published his "Code."
Who was Hammurabi?
They sold this beverage to the Egyptians for huge profits.
What is wine?
Supposed number or gods, due to the adoption of multiple religions.
What is 1000?
An Assyrian king built a massive one of these in Nineveh to glorify his intelligence.
What is a library?
This king from Uruk ended up in an epic poem.
Who was Gilgamesh?
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Modern-day country that currently exists on Phoenician lands.
What is Israel?
Beautiful Hittite queen with whom the Hebrew king David fell hopelessly in love.
Who was Bathsheba?
Brutal king who conquered and destroyed everything in his path, driving Assyria to its peak as an empire.
Who was Ashurbanipal?