Sumerians
This story was a long narrative poem, about a giant flood?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tigris-Euphrates Valley
He was the first king of Babylon
Hammurabi
This king invented bureaucracy
Darius I
Name the three Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt
Old, Middle, and New
Large buildings pyramid like temples that soared towards the heaven
Ziggurats
This civilization developed in the southeastern Mesopotamia
Sumer
The Hammurabi Code of laws was broken up into these two type of laws
Criminal and Civil
Barter and Money economy
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt this:
The Wholly Gift of the Nile
Ranking of groups is called a what
Hierarchy
Ur and Uruk
Under Babylonian law these people were strictly regulated
Women
Under Zoroaster a new religion was born
Zoroastrianism
What was the capital of the united regions?
Memphis
Cuneiform
Farming cities grew close to this body of water.
Rivers
This was the God of the Babylonians
Marduk
Unlike other civilizations the Persian were known for what after conquering new land?
Borrowing and leaving cultures alone to their own religious freedom
Pyramids were seen as:
Tombs for the Pharaohs
This Sumerian goddess Inanna became who
Ishtar
The civilizations in Mesopotamia where believed to be the first to invent this form transportation
Wheels and/or carriages
This Babylonians king is to have been known for building the Hanging Gardens for his wife
Nebuchadnezzar
This Persian leader would later go on to take over the world..
Alexander the Great
She took power because the heir was too young:
Hatshepsut