Vocabulary
A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire.
What is a province?
The Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon.
Who is King Neb?
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Fine particles of fertile soil.
What is silt?
A payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender.
What is a tribute?
The people who gave iron weapons to the Assyrians.
Who are the Hittites?
What city held one of the first libraries?
What is Nineveh?
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams.
What is irrigation?
A large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler.
What is an empire?
Considered the first king of the ancient world.
Who is Sargon?
The two rivers that helped Mesopotamia thrive.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay.
What is cuneiform?
A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels.
What is a caravan?
Who are the mountain people who captured Babylon?
Who are the Persians?
The pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top where only the priest could go.
What is a ziggurat?
A person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper.
Who is a scribe?
A person who studies planets and stars.
Who is an astronomer?
Who did the Chaldeans defeat because of their harsh ruling?
Who are the Assyrians?
What two major bodies of water is Babylon surrounded by that helped with trade?
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf?
A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero.
What is an epic?