Rulers & Empires
He was king of the Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
The name of the writing system used by the Mesopotamians that used wedge-shaped characters.
What is cuneiform?
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
What is a levee?
A characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people
What is culture?
A brutal empire that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
The invention of the ___________ made transportation easier and more common.
What is the wheel?
A craftsperson, like a metal worker or sculptor, is also called an _____
What is an artisan?
A city that is also a separate independent country with its own laws and government.
What is a city-state?
This temple-like palace was the crowning achievement of the Neo-Babylonian empire.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
These are the different main ways that a person could become a slave.
What is owe taxes or be captured in war?
The definition of tribute.
What is wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior?
The body of water that the two rivers of Mesopotamia flow into.
What is The Persian Gulf?
I was one of the most legendary characters, I was a heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk. There is a great epic written about me.
Who was Gilgamesh?
These are two of the duties of Sumerian kings.
What is: lead the army, collect taxes, maintain irrigation, and enforce laws?
One of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf, this river is on the western side of Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
One of the mountain ranges located in northern Mesopotamia?
What are the Taurus or Zagros Mountains?
I was the world's first civilization that formed in the Southern Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?