City-States
Laws
Religion
Geography
People
100
The first inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.
What is the Sumerians
100
The Code of Hammurabi
What is the ancient set of laws created by the priest-king of Babylon, Hammurabi.
100
The gods lived in this special temple.
What is a ziggurat.
100
Tigris and Euphrates.
What is the two rivers in ancient Mesopotamia?
100
Invented Babylon's Code of Laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Cuneiform, and the wheel
What is the most important Sumerian inventions.
200
There were 282 of these
How many laws were there in the Code of Hammurabi?
200
The Sumerian's worshiped many gods.
What is polytheism/polytheistic.
200
The Fertile Crescent.
What is the land in which consists of Mesopotamia that extends from the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?
200
He was the king of the city-state Kish; he united the city states of Sumer to create an empire.
Who is Sargon?
300
The invaders who overran the Sumerian civilization. They had a king and a code of law.
What is Babylon/Babylonians
300
The rules God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai.
What is the Ten Commandments
300
Assur.
What is the name the Assyrians gave to their city-state which was on the Tigris River.
300
They start in the Caspian Sea & in the Zagros Mountains.
Where do the Tigris & Euphrates rivers start?
300
This man was the founder of Judaism who, according to the Bible, led his family from Ur to Canaan in obedience to God's command.
Who is Abraham?
400
They knew how to smelt iron and their strongest point was their legal system.
What is the Hittites
400
Had to do with commerce, trade, marriage, divorce, and property rights.
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws.
400

The belief in many gods.

Polytheism

400
This killed & destroyed crops.
What is flooding?
400
This man was the prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery to Egypt.
Who is Moses?
500
Had an effective system of empire and built a library
What is the Warlike Assyrians
500
This civilization's legal system was based on compensation.
What is the Hittites.
500

The belief in one god.

Monotheism

500
This was very rich, so it helped plants in the soil grow stronger.
What is silt?
500
This man's wife had the name of Sarah.
Who is Abraham?
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