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These two rivers are found in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
This king wrote down a code of law on stone pillars around his empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
Sumer had a least ___ (#) city-states.
What is 12 cities -states?
100
Hammurabi’s laws were divided into two branches:
What are the civil law and criminal law?
100
The meaning of the word "Mesopotamia" mean in Greek.
What is "land between two rivers"?
100
Nebuchadnezzar built this for his beloved wife
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
200
It stretched from Asia Minor to India, including present-day Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
What is the Persian empire?
200
He founded one of the world’s first libraries at Nineveh.
Who was Assurbanipal?
200
He built the first known empire in world history, but it did not last long. Name the emperor and the empire
Who was Sargon from the Akkadian empire.
200
Hammurabi Code followed this principle.
What is “an eye for an eye and a life for a life.”?
200
Hammurabi code protected these two powerless groups of people.
What was to protect women and slaves?
200
What is this kind of writing called?
This kind of writing is called cuneiform.
300
They were the first inhabitants of Mesopotamia
Who were the Sumer?
300
He was a Persian thinker and religious leader who believed in only one wise god during the Persian empire.
Who was Zoroaster?
300
The ________ adopted the Phoenician alphabet, but added the ________.
Who are the Greeks? What are the vowels?
300
What is this kind of temple called?
What is a ziggurat?
300
This military technology was invented by others and modified by the Hittites.
What was the horse drawn chariot?
300
Phoenicians manufactured these two valuable goods.
What are glass from coastal sand and a purple dye from a tiny sea nail called “Tyrian purple”?
400
They occupied the eastern Mediterranean coast (today Lebanon and Syria)
Who were Phoenicians
400
He was the first king of the Persia empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
400
This was the major advancement of the Hittites.
What was the knowledge of how to extract iron from ore?
400
He was the chief of the gods in Babylon
Who was Marduk?
400
Persians pursued this policy throughout their empire.
What is a policy of Tolerance or acceptance?
400
How many laws did Hammurabi write down?
Hammurabi wrote down 300 laws on stone pillars.
500
Warfare was central to this culture
Who were the Assyrians?
500
He built the Gardens of Babylon for his beloved wife
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
The Sumerians left great legacies in these fields. Mention two examples for each.
What are Math: develop basic algebra and geometry and set a number system based on six. They divided the hour into 60 minutes and the circle into 360 degrees.
Astronomy: Predict solar and lunar eclipses
literature: The Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
These were the layers of the Sumerians social system:
What are the following levels?
Top: ruling families, leading officials, high priests
Middle: lesser priests, scribes, merchants, artisans
Low: peasants, farmers (majority)
very Low: slaves
500
This was a significant Phoenician contribution to culture
What was the alphabet (22 symbols that stood for consonant sounds)?
500
He was a single wise god, who ruled the world according to Zoroaster.
Who was Ahura Mazda?