The Fertile Crescent
Sumer was a group of these, working together to provide for themselves and maintain safety and security.
What was a group city-states?
This is the name of the first major ruler of Sumer. He ruled the Akkadians.
Who was Sargon?
The Sumerians invented a form of writing with pictures to represent words and ideas to record their history. It was called this.
What is cuneiform?
This man ruled Babylon after Babylon regained power. He is also in the Bible quite a bit.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
"Fertile Crescent" is the nickname for this area?
Mesopotamia
Sumer was ruled by this leadership. The leader was also a high priest and head of the military.
What was a king?
Hammurabi founded this kingdom in 2300 B.C., and it was also the kingdom Nebuchadnezzar ruled later.
What was Babylon?
Sumer was a place of this, where ideas, inventions, goods, and cultures met.
What is cultural diffusion?
Nebuchadnezzar built this, supposedly for one of his wives.
What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
This word means "land between the rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
This structure was a place of worship and resembled a pyramid.
What was a ziggurat?
Hammurabi created a set of laws that were incredibly strict, known as this.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This poem was originally handed down by word-of-mouth (orally), until it was actually written down in 1800 BC.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah, and that time period is called this.
What is the Babylonian Captivity?
This property of the soil in Mesopotamia contributed to its fertility (ability to grow crops).
What is "silt"?
Sumerians had this type of religion/worshipped this way.
What was polytheistic?
The Hittites were able to conquer Babylon because they had these.
What were iron chariots and horses?
The Sumerians created this major invention, which could be used in a variety of purposes, such as on wagons, chariots, and to create a sundial.
What is the wheel?
Nebuchadnezzar's sons took over Babylon after he died, but they were eventually conquered by this nation/ruler.
Who is Persia's Cyrus the Great?
This is how Sumerians worked together to increase crop production when the land got too dry.
What is irrigate with dams and channels?
According to Sumerian law, these people were head of the household and could treat others in the household however they wanted.
Who were males/men?
The Assyrians were TERRIFYING. They used this to control the area of Mesopotamia (Babylon, Sumer, Akkad, etc.).
What was fear, terror, deporting others out of the country?
The Phoenicians created this type of writing, which we use in the English alphabet today.
What is an alphabet, phonics, letters to represent sounds?
Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom included Babylon, Syria, and Canaan. It was also called this.
What was the Chaldean Empire?