Who Dat?
I'll take out your eye or cut your hands off.
Who is Hammurabi?
When (60) minutes seem like hours, and (7) days seem like a week, blame these people.
Who are the Chaldeans?
When is a civilization not an empire - in Mesopotamia this was the first example.
What is Sumer?
They would fight in tight formations, with the front line carrying shields for protection and a second line carrying spears.
Who were the Akkadians?
An empire required a large territory, several different groups of people, and this.
What is a a single leader or government?
The powerful rulers of these Mesopotamian empires still owed obedience to them
Who were their gods?
The Assyrians created a transport system using these two things to bring drinking water to Nineveh from 30 miles away.
What are canals and aqueducts?
You shall not steal the stele could have been a law here.
What is Babylonia?
They used cavalry, charioteers, iron weapons, siege towers, and battering rams to destroy enemy armies.
Who were the Assyrians?
How a country uses its resources to produce or trade goods and services. Bill Clinton would call you an idiot for not knowing this.
What is economy?
A heroic king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk.
Who was Gilgamesh?
Assyrian King Ashurbanipal built Mesopotamia's first and most extensive one of these in Nineveh?
What is a library?
They were enslaved during the Babylonian Captivity.
Who were the Israelites?
They did not seek to expand militarily, and so they themselves were conquered by multiple empires.
Who were the Phoenicians?
A term for a military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.
What is a seige?
He ordered the temple in Jerusalem to be destroyed, but rebuilt the palaces and ziggurats in his own city.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
First colonizers
What is Phoenicia?
They weren't really new, but their sundial was. What time is it now, Nebby?.
Who were the Neo-Babylonians?
The Hittites conquered Babylonia using iron weapons and these.
What are horse-drawn chariots?
Like ransom or reaping, this payment was sent to a conquering ruler by a city or country to avoid it being destroyed or losing its sovereignty.
What is tribute?
Credited with building the world’s first empire
Who was Sargon I?
"Chillin' out" at this pretty place that maybe wasn't real, or wasn't where they said it was.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
They traded 'glass' and 'purple' dye, and could spell them too.
Who are the Phoenicians?
This brutal group often killed captured soldiers and displaced entire cities to other regions to serve as slaves.
Who were the Assyrians?
Hammurabi wrote the first of these in the civilized world.
What were a "code of laws"?