Vocabulary
This supplies dry land with water for crops.
Irrigation
This king created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his homesick wife.
Nebuchadnezzar
These people analyze the moon and stars.
Astronomer
This is similar to trading and took the place of money in Mesopotamia.
Bartering
This fertile land is located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf.
The belief in more than one god
Polytheistic
This king created the first written code of law.
Hammurabi
Travelling merchants
Caravan
This building is a large temple.
Ziggurat
This mean "Land between the rivers" in Greek.
Mesopotamia
Run by men
Patriarchal
This Akkadian king created the world's first empire.
Sargon
A political district
Province
What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger?
How to use stronger metals such as iron for weaponry.
Mesopotamia is located between which two major rivers?
Tigris River and Euphrates River
Territory or group of territories under one ruler.
Empire
Chaldean king who conquered the Assyrian Empire.
Nabopolassar
An eye for an ____, a tooth for a tooth.
Eye
What two materials were Mesopotamian homes made of?
Mud and Straw
Before irrigation, farmers had to rely on rivers doing what in order to provide fertile soil in which to farm on.
Flood
City that governs itself and the land around it.
City-state
These hill people took over the Chaldean empire in 539 B.C.
The Persians
This was the first writing in history created by the Sumerians.
Cuneiform
Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Assyrian Empire's capital city.
Nineveh