Stop - Sumer Time
This is a form of writing developed by the people of Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
This "moon-shaped" land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is often called the cradle of civilization and includes parts of modern-day Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This King conquered all of the peoples of Mesopotamia, creating the world's first empire that lasted more than 200 years.
Who is Sargon?
The site of one of the world's first libraries; also the ancient Assyrian capital.
What is Nineveh?
This hero of one of the oldest epics traveled the world performing great deeds.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Their roles included running the home and watching the children. They were also responsible for teaching their daughters how to run a house as well.
Who are Sumerian women?
This is what happened during the summers in Mesopotamia: a) high humidity kept people indoors
b) melting snow led to flooding
c) snow fell
d) water was scarce
What is D, water was scarce?
The most-likely job the first Sumerian kings were before becoming rulers: a) artisans b) farmers
c) scribes d) war heros
What are war heroes?
This group rebelled against the Assyrians and created the "New Babylonian Empire".
Who are the Chaldeans?
What is a ziggurat?
According to Sumerian social classes, artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this social group.
What is the middle class?
This material is what most buildings in Mesopotamia were made of.
What are mud(clay)-bricks?
This King wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life.
Who is Hammurabi?
This empire's brutality and extreme violence often caused city-states to surrender without a fight.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
These are people who study the heavenly bodies.
What are astronomers?
The few Sumerians who were heads of the households also learned how to write, which means they might have had this job in the temple (writing laws and taxes in cuneiform).
What is a scribe?
This part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
This King not only helped rule the New Babylonian Empire with his dad, but he also saw the miracle of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stepping out of the furnace unharmed after praying to God.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
These mountain people captured Babylon in 539 B.C.
Who are the Persians?
This is the empire that had many city-states.
What is Sumer?
This was the most important invention of the Sumerians.
What is cuniform? or What is....(teacher decides).
Babylon became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and this MAJOR body of water (not a river).
What is the Persian Gulf?
This King built the first library in Ninevah.
Who is King Ashbanapol?
The Assyrian army was around this number when you included soldiers, infantry, cavalry, and charioteers.
What is 50,000?
The Hittites taught the Assyrians how to make this, which strengthened their armies.
What is how to make stronger iron for weapons?