People
The first empire in the world was established around 2350 BCE. by...
Who is: Sargon of Akkad?
"Mesopotamia" means
What is: "Between the Rivers?"
This system of moving water was invented in Sumer.
What is "basin irrigation?"
In 7,000 BCE...
What was the Sumerian Agricultural Revolution?
Mesopotamia was an incredibly unstable place - geographically and politically - because...
What is "the flooding of the Tigris and the Euphrates river?"
Hammurabi, the 6th king of Babylonia, is most well known for...
What is creating the Code of Hammurabi?
This city was the home of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Where was Neo-Babylon?
The Sumerian written language was called...
What is "cuneiform?"
This invasion preceded a Dark Age in Sumerian history.
What was: the invasion of the Gutians from Persia?
Sumerian history was preserved by...
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Who was Gilgamesh?
This city was lost to history.
Where was the original city of Babylon?
This trade system requires goods to be exchanged for one another.
What is "bartering?"
This group invaded Mesopotamia twice.
Who were the Kassites?
Historians believe that the Hittites did not stay in Mesopotamia because...
What was: Their king was assassinated?
Nebuchadnezzar was emperor of... (both names are required!)
Who were the Chaldeans / Babylonians?
This river was not conquered by Hammurabi.
What is "the Tigris?"
The term for the intentional destruction of a culture and their history is...
What is "iconoclasm?"
In 1595 BCE...
What was: The Hittites destroyed Babylon?
The wheel was original used to...
What is: Make pottery?
The Assyrian emperor, Sennacherib, was assassinated by his own people because
What is "he disrespected the gods of Babylon and Assyria when he destroyed Babylon?"
In ancient Sumer, these two city-states feuded for control over southern Mesopotamia.
What were Uruk and Ur?
This term describes a system of power in a civilization.
What is a social hierarchy?
What was: The Chaldeans and their allies drove Assyria out of Mesopotamia?
Sennacherib destroyed Babylon because...
Why was: They continuously rebelled against him and appointed their own king? (And also might have killed his favorite son!)