The Phoenicians
A great sea power with trade routes throughout this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
In the 6th century B.C., Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II built this Seventh Wonder of the World.
What is the famous Hanging Garden of Babylon?
The specific location of Sumer in Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The 4 reasons why the F.C. was the source of life for the people of the area.
What are grow crops, fish, make clay, and build boats?
Gilgamesh may or may not have been a real person in this dating back from 2700 B.C. in Mesopotamia.
What is an epic poem?
The two things brought to this civilization because of trade routes.
What are wealth and knowledge?
Another name for this area of land near the Nile River of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The cities of Sumer are considered city-states because of 4 specific characteristics.
What are God, government, Army, and King?
The F.C. is between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
In the famous epic, Gilgamesh was this part god and this part human?
What is 2/3 god and 1/3 human?
This was the nickname for the Phoenicians.
What are adventurous traders?
Nickname for ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the "the land between the two rivers?"
This was the purpose why Sumerian writing was invented.
What is to keep track of business when bartering, or trading?
These are the 9 present-day countries of the Fertile Crescent that make up the Middle East.
What are Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Kuwait, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria?
Gilgamesh was written on this material.
What are 12 clay tablets?
Their written language is the basis of this used today.
What are man's alphabets?
These are the two rivers that ancient Mesopotamia lies between.
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
The name given to the Sumerian form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
These were disadvantages to living on the Fertile Crescent.
What are irregular flooding, no rain from May to October, it was a desert and very hot, and flooding swept away people, houses, animals, and crops?
These are the 4 themes(morals) or messages of Gilgamesh?
What are friendship, love, happiness, and death?
This inspired the Phoenicians to create their own 22 letter alphabet.
What are Egypt's hierglyphics?
The oldest civilization in the world found in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
These were written once cuneiform became more popular.
What are epic poems?
These were the solutions to flooding in the Fertile Crescent.
What are building an irrigation system to bring water from the river to the fields and building houses further away from the flooding?