Vocabulary
Ancient Sumer
Akkadian and Babylonian
Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian
Hammurabi's Code
100
used to make clothing
What is a loom?
100
There are this many characteristics of a civilization.
What is 7
100
The year the Akkadian Empire started.
What is 2300 BCE?
100
The capital city of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
What is Babylon?
100
famous king of the Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
200
studying the stars and planets
What is astronomy?
200
This invention helped to provide crops with a regular supply of water
What is an irrigation system?
200
The year the Babylonian Empire started.
What is 1750 BCE?
200
The capital city of the Assyrian Empire
What is Nineveh
200
These laws are missing from the code
What is 66-99?
300
city that is the center of government
What is a capital?
300
Ancient Sumer believed these rulers were chosen by the gods
What are kings?
300
The most famous king of the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon?
300
known as a war-like people
Who are the Assyrians?
300
the year Hammurabi's laws were found
What is 1901?
400
stone slabs used to record important events
What is a stele?
400
Sumer's most important invention
What is the wheel?
400
The greatest achievement of the Babylonian Empire.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire
What is the Persian Empire?
400
number of laws in Hammurabi's Code
What is 282?
500
pipe that brings water to a city
What is an aqueduct?
500
Sumer's system of writing
What is cuneiform
500
The world's first empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
500
new
What is 'neo'?
500
The reason there is no law #13
What is the number 13 was unlucky and evil?
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