Sumerians
Assyrians
Babylonians
Hittites & Phoenicians
Fertile Crescent & Geography
100
What is the named of the stepped tower that the Sumerians built there temples on?
What is a ziggurat.
100
Were the Assyrians known to be peaceful or aggressive?
What is aggressive.
100
Who was a famous King for the Babylonians?
What is Hammurabi.
100
What was the capital city of the Hittite Empire?
What is Hattusus.
100
What is the area/land that the Fertile Crescent is in called?
What is Mesopotamia.
200
The belief of many gods is called what?
What is polytheism.
200
What river was most of the Assyrian cities built next to?
What is Tigris River.
200
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
What is the laws/codes of the empire.
200
To write, Hittites and Phoenicians used cuneiform and what other type of writing?
What is hieroglyphics.
200
What country is the Fertile Crescent in today?
What is Iraq.
300
Name three innovations/inventions that the Sumerians created.
What is wheel, plow, writing (cuneiform), levees, irrigation.
300
What city was the capital of Assyria?
What is Nineveh.
300
Give an example of one of the laws from the Code of Hammurabi.
What is "an eye for an eye."
300
Who was the Hittite's main "enemy?"
What is Egypt.
300
What sea do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into?
What is the Persian Gulf.
400
Name the three social classes and give an example of a person from each one.
What is upper class (kings), middle class (merchants), and working class (slaves)
400
The Assyrians created the world's first known what?
What is library.
400
Name three seas that you can find in Mesopotamia.
What is the Dead Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the Caspian Sea.
400
Today, what country is the Phoenician's Empire apart of?
What is Lebanon.
400
List three cities that can be found within the Fertile Crescent.
What is Nineveh, Ur, and Babylon.
500
The Sumerians wrote the first recorded story. What was it called?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
500
What part of Mesopotamia was Assyria located?
What is upper Mesopotamia.
500
How did the Babylonian Empire fall/end?
What is the Hittites attacked and weakened them; then they took over.
500
What one thing did the Phoenicians develop, that they passed onto the Greeks, and has become something used even today?
What is alphabet.
500
What was the first city established in the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia.
What is Ur.
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