Land Between Two Rivers
What is polytheism?
Many territories and peoples controlled by one government.
What is an empire?
What is cuneiform?
To force someone to live in another country.
What is exile?
A market selling different types of goods.
What is a bazaar?
The two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
He created the Babylonian Empire by uniting the cities of Sumer.
Who is Hammurabi?
The oldest known written set of laws, it established rules for everyone in the empire to follow.
What is Hammurabi's code?
Phoenicians made up these to reduce trade competition.
What is sea monster stories?
One way that the Tigris and Euphrates brought life, and one way that they brought death.
What are fertile topsoil for farming (life) and flash floods that swept away people, animals, crops, and houses (death)?
The first cities of Mesopotamia developed in this southern region.
What is Sumer?
The main reason that Assyrians became such skilled warriors.
What is that they were constantly under attack?
Early scribes in the Fertile Crescent wrote on _______ and wrote with a ___________.
What are clay and a stylus?
Two of the limited local resources that Phoenicians had.
What are snails and cedar forests?
The Phoenician alphabet primarily spread because of this.
What is trade?
The fall of Sumer was primarily caused by this.
What is that city-states fought each other over land and the use of river water?
According to your notes, two things that the empires of Babylonia and Assyria had in common.
What are being vicious about their riches and building grand cities of culture and learning?
Three examples of Hammurabi's "Eye for an Eye" principle.
What is...
If the building you build collapses and someone dies, you will be put to death. If the tenant's son dies, your son will be put to death.
If a son strikes his father, his hands will be cut off.
And a whole bunch of other "put to death" things.
After settling in Canaan, the next three locations that the Israelites lived in (involuntary and voluntary).
What are Egypt, Canaan, and Babylonia?
When Hammurabi built roads, it improved these three things.
What are travel, trade, and communication?
Three specific characteristics of a ziggurat.
What are a pyramid shape, terraces, seven-story height, a shrine on top, and ramps and stairs (which Sumerians believed was a stairway for the gods)?
The two groups that combined to defeat the Assyrians.
Who were the Medes and Chaldeans?
Three decisions that Mesopotamian scribes made about writing which influence how English is written today.
What is symbols set in rows, rows read left to right, and a page is read from top to bottom?
The two major cities of Phoenicia.
What were Tyre and Sidon?
The people of this area first developed a system of writing.
What is Sumer?