Vocabulary
People
Places
GRAPES
Miscellaneous
100
An area of elevated flatland.
What is plateau?
100
He ruled over the Babylonia empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
A dozen small cities dotting southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
100
This region in Western Asia.
What is Fertile Crescent?
100
A large building with a temple on its peak.
What is ziggurat?
200
Long periods of dry weather.
What is drought?
200
King of the city-state Kish.
Who is Sargon?
200
Small kingdom in Northern Mesopotamia which later gained control over Sumer.
What is Babylon?
200
The belief in many gods/godesses.
What is polytheism?
200
A written set of laws.
What is code of law?
300
Belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
300
A hero to the ancient Sumerians.
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
Modern day countries of the Fertile Crescent.
What is Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel?
300
Laws, letters, records, stories and instructions could be widely shared through this.
What is cuneiform?
300
Through this, we know about an Early Sumerian mythical hero, Gilgamesh.
What is cuneiform?
400
The rebuilding of Babylonia, making it the capital of an even stronger empire.
What is the New Babylonia?
400
Seafaring people who traded with Sumerians.
Who are the Phoenicians?
400
The first book of the Bible that tells a story of a family that came from this city-state.
What is Ur?
400
Kings served as generals, judges, and these.
What is canal overseers?
400
Early farmers built these to solve their problems of river flooding.
What is water-control and irrigation systems?
500
The Torah commanded people to remember this and keep it holy.
What is Sabbath?
500
He made the city of Jerusalem his capital.
Who is David?
500
God gave Moses five books of laws and teachings here.
What is Mount Sinai?
500
Because cuneiform was used throughout his empire, he could send instructions and govern over great distances.
Who is Sargon?
500
City-states often went to war to gain control over this.
What is river water?
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