Geography and Sumer
This is the name of a temple in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
Hammurabi is best remembered for this.
What is creating a code of laws?
The Assyrians were known for having a professional this.
What is army?
The Phoenicians were best known for doing this throughout the Mediterreanean.
What is sailing and/or trading?
This is the modern day country that makes up Persia.
What is Iran?
These two rivers border Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Hammurabi was a king in this empire.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
The Assyrians were the first to fight with this metal.
What is iron?
The Phoenicians were the first to create a 22-character this.
What is alphabet?
Cyrus was considered great because he showed this quality toward the people he ruled.
What is tolerance?
This allowed the Sumerians to successfully farm in Mesopotamia.
What are irrigation systems (canals), mild climate, and/or regular flooding from the rivers?
Name an improvement Hammurabi made during his rule as king in Mesopotamia.
What is fixed streets, walls, canals, temples, etc (domestic improvements)?
This was the wonder of the ancient world thought to be in Babylon.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
The Phoenicians set up these throughout the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding area.
What are colonies?
Darius divided the Persian empire into twenty what?
What are provinces?
An agricultural surplus allowed the Sumerians to do this.
What is increase their population and/or trade?
This is one thing from the Code of Hammurabi that still affects law today.
What is the use of judges OR the need for evidence OR innocent until proven guilty?
This is the reason both of the Assyrian and Chaldean empire did not last.
This is the country that makes up modern day Phoenicia.
What is Lebanon?
Darius I created this to improve communication in the Persian empire.
What is a system of roads (including the Royal Road)?
This was the first person to unite Mesopotamia and create the first known empire.
Who is Sargon?
The Code of Hammurabi contained this many laws.
What is 282?
This is the name of the most famous king of the Chaldean Empire.
What is Nebuchadnezzar?
The Phoenicians created a purple dye by using this.
What is a shellfish or sea snail?
This was the name for a governor of a province in the Persian Empire.
What is a satrap?