Vocab
The belief in many gods/goddesses.
Polytheism
Created a set of laws that were written down for the first time in history.
Who was Hammurabi?
Mesopotamia based it's civilizations off these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Called the Purple Dye people.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Outposts of people from one land who live in another land.
Colonies
The sympathy for the beliefs and practices of others.
Tolerance
The secret to Cyrus the Great's success, practiced this with the groups he concurred.
What is tolerance?
The first civilization to arise in Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C.
The people of Sumer created this first writing system.
What is cuneiform?
Watering fields using human-made systems.
Irrigation
A self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands and settlements; a city that controls the surrounding villages and towns.
City-State
The Hanging Gardens were created by this ruler in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Nebuchadnezzar II
To house the gods and provide a place to worship them.
What is a Ziggurat?
Where we get the basis of our Modern Western alphabet.
What is the Phoenician alphabet?
Known as widespread hunger.
Famine
A group of different lands and people governed by one ruler.
Empire
What is the Royal Road?
Social class was determined by these two things.
What is power and wealth?
Developed to help farmers grow crops and feed people.
What is an irrigation system?
If you knocked out somebody's tooth under Hammurabi's Code, what would happen to you?
Your tooth would be knocked out.
A category of people based on wealth or status in society.
Social Class
Name a few things Sargon did in order for his people to enjoy his rule.
-Keep local rules and customs
-Introduced weights and mesaurements
-Made Akkadian the official language
-Personally led wars with his troops
-Effective manager of people and projects
The reasons the city-states in Mesopotamia fought frequent wars.
What is to protect fertile lands, limited natural resources, and profitable trade routes?
At the very top of the social class in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Who is the king?
The Frenchtown Broncs are ranked what in football?
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