Religion
Empires
Economics
Fertile Crescent
Domestic Life
100
Describes ancient Mesopotamian religion
What is polytheism
100
These "Hanging Gardens" were located in which ancient civilizations?
What is Babylon
100
The basis of all great civilizations
What is agriculture or farming?
100
Name one of the two rivers that supported civilizations that sprung up in Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris or Euphrates Rivers?
100
The lowest class in the social class was this
What is slave?
200
Religious temples that housed shrines in ancient Mesopotamia
What is ziggurats
200
These people had advanced weapons and superior fighting tactics
What is Assyrians
200
These carried water from the Euphrates to fields
What is irrigation (canals)?
200
These people did most of the labor intensive work in Mesopotamia
What is slaves?
200
The set of laws that was written down for all to see
What is Hammurabi's Laws or Code of Hammurabi
300
Many of the deities pertained to what aspect of Mesopotamian life?
What is agriculture
300
Known as the purple dye people
What is Phoenicians
300
This invention helped merchants keep track of amounts of sold/purchased items
What is abacus
300
City-states built these for protection
What is walls?
300
The basic writing that used images of objects invented by the Sumerians
What is pictographs
400
Ziggurats housed these
What is religious shrines
400
Respected tolerance and improved communication
What is Persians
400
Phoenicians were superior in this craft
What is shipbuilding?
400
Sumerians wrote their cuneiform on these
What is clay tablets
500
The penalty for stealing from places of worship
What is death
500
First king to coin currency
Who is Darius I
500
A colony of the Phoenicians
What is Carthage
500
Name one of the geographical features that border the Fertile Crescent
What is Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, or Syrian Desert
500
This animal usually had his head as the maidenhead of Phoenician ships
What is horse?
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