Geography
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia exists in this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
This ruler ruled the Akkadians and created the first and largest empire. He standardized weights for easy trading and payment and was often very cruel in his approach to gaining respect and honor.
Who is Sargon the Great?
Mesopotamians believed in this, which means they believed in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
What is watering the fields using human-made systems? This redirected the flood waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is irrigation?
What a governor of a province in the Persian empire?
What is a satrap?
In Greek, Mesopotamia means:
What is "land between the rivers"?
This ruler ruled the Babylonian Empire. He is responsible for creating a codification of laws (An eye for and eye..) and putting these written laws on display for the entire empire to read.
Each city-state had one of these, topped with a temple and dedicated to the specific god they worshipped.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamian civilization ushered in this "age" with the mixing of tin and copper.
What is the Bronze Age?
How was Hammurabi's court system like the one we have today?
What is judges heard cases from witnesses and examined evidence and defendants were innocent until proven guilty?
The two rivers that ran through Mesopotamia were called:
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This ruler regained control of Babylon after the rule of the Assyrian Empire. He led the Chaldeans and during his regime, built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Tower of Babel, as well as the Ishtar Gate.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
What is a tax paid or goods and services rendered in return for protection?
What is a tribute?
What are TWO achievements of the Sumerians?
What are cuneiform, irrigation systems, the wheel, and the ox-driven plow?
What were the roles of priests in the city-state?
What is to communicate with the gods and keep them happy, ration portions of food for citizens, use astrology and astronomy to develop a calendar for floods?
Mesopotamia was also called this because the area was good for growing food.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Who is Cyrus the Great?
What caused city-states to develop in Sumer and form the world's first civilization?
What is farming villages working together on major irrigation projects? This collaboration led to united villages that eventually formed city states.
What are TWO achievements of the Assyrian Empire?
What are a library, iron weapons, translating the Epic of Gilgamesh, bows and arrows/professional army?
Akkadians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Chaldeans (New Babylonians), or the Assyrians?
Who were the Phoenicians?
What is the especially fine and fertile soil deposited by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
What is silt?
Who is Darius I?
How did the organization of Sumerian society affect the way different roles were viewed by others? Who was at the top of the social class and who was at the bottom?
What is this caused people to look down on others who had a lower status? At the top were kings and priests, at the bottom were slaves.
What are TWO achievements of the Phoenician Empire?
What are purple dye and a 22-letter alphabet?
In what ways were the governing practices of Cyrus the Great and Darius I different from the Assyrian rulers?
What is they were fair and only made people pay the tribute that they could afford. Assyrian rulers were cruel and people suffered severe punishment or death if tributes weren't paid.