Geography
Achievements
Politics
Sumerians
Pot Luck
100
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia called
100
This Sumerian invention helped trade over land.
What is the wheel?
100
The emperor who held his empire together with force and trade.
Who was Shamshi-Adad?
100
Early Sumer was made up of a number of these.
What are city-states?
100
One important advantage to the Phoenician alphabet.
What is "it was simpler that cuneiform?"
200
An area of land that is flat, broad, and elevated.
What is a plateau?
200
The Babylonians invented this to help keep time.
What is 60 minutes in the hour, and 60 seconds in the minute.
200
The Hanging Gardens, Ishtar Gate, and the largest ziggurat.
What did Nebuchadnezzar build?
200
Administrators that organized irrigation systems and ran the city.
Who were the early priests?
200
A sharpened reed used in writing.
What is a stylus?
300
Irrigation system got water from here.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
300
They used the sun as well as the moon.
How did the Babylonians improve upon the Sumerian calendar?
300
The Chaldeans and the Medes.
Who defeated the New Assyrian empire?
300
The bulla and token as an aid to trade.
What may have led to the invention of writing?
300
A group of people who plundered, looted, and murdered.
What was the army under Adad Nirari?
400
Babylon was the center of trade because of this.
What is location between cities to the north and south?
400
The elements of a civiliztion.
What are stable food supply, government, surplus, specialized labor, advanced culture (writing)
400
The king and priests.
Who ran the city-states early on?
400
Sumer had many gods - one for each city-state.
What is polytheism?
400
By 650 b.c. the Assyrian empire covered land from _______________.
What is Persian Gulf, to Egypt, to Turkey?
500
The state of Maryland.
What was the size of ancient Sumer?
500
Name three achievements of the Sumerians that we use today.
What are the plow, wheel, calendar, sailboat, games.
500
Name what was gained by empire expansion.
What is land, power, wealth, slaves, trade, rebellions
500
His best friend was Enkidu.
Who was Gilgamesh?
500
Nabonidus tried to replace the God Marduk with this God.
What was Sin?
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