Vocabulary
A complex society
Civilization
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
Irrigation
Akkadian was the world's first one of these.
Emperor
Mesopotamians created the first writing system. This writing system is called what?
Cuneiform
The dye from the snail shells was this color
purple
a group of many different lands under one ruler
empire
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
He was the the ruler of the Babylonian empire?
Hammurabi
Because they did not have paper people wrote on what?
Clay tablets
The Phoenicians created one of the first ________ which they could use to make writing easier.
alphabets
a belief in more than one god
polytheism
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
Fertile Crescent
Who was the ruler of the Akkadian empire.
Sargon
Mesopotamians created the ___________, which we use on cars today.
Wheel
The Phoenicians created these to make trading along the Mediterranean Sea easier.
ships
a focused payment made to a ruler (as a sign of submission)
Tribute
Mesopotamia had these harsh conditions that could destroy crops.
Flooding
Put the Assyrian, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, and Akkadian empire in chronological order.
Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian
Cuneiform was created to keep track of what?
business records
________ goods was an important aspect of the Phoenician economy.
Trading
a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
province
The body of water to the west of Mesopotamia
The Mediterranean Sea
Why did the Assyrian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Neo-Babylonian empires all eventually fail?
They became too large
What number was the Sumerian number system based on?
60
The Phoenician empire was located along this body of water.
Mediterranean Sea