Mesopotamia
Like the Egyptians, the Mespotamians were ________ because they believed in many gods
What is polytheistic?
"Sacred writing"
What are hieroglyphics?
Second largest empire in Mesopotamia
What is the Hittite Empire?
The "land between the two rivers" often referred to as, the Fertile Crescent
What is Mespotamia?
Around 1790 BCE, this king of Babylon established the first written laws
Who is Hammurabi?
The three classes of society and religion
What are nobles, commoners, and slaves?
Developed the Egyptian Civilization
What is the Nile River?
Great waves of invasions and tribes attacking the north caused this to happen
What is the fall of the Hittite Empire?
The two main rivers of the "Fertile Crescent" and a vital resource to the city-states of ancient Mesoptamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Ancient Mesopotamia covered these three areas
What are Assyria, Akkad, and Sumer?
Founded the Akkadian Empire and unified Mespotamia under his rule
Who is Sargon the Great?
The key that unlocked the mysteries of Egyptian hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Founder of Hittite Old Kingdom
Who is Labarna I?
The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops
What is irrigation?
Developed the first Mespotamian civilization
Who are the Sumerians?
The most important piece of Mesoptamian literature
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A member of a people who have no fixed residence, but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory
What are nomads?
Asia Minor and now today modern-day Turkey
What is Anatolia?
A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
By 3200 BCE, villages of Egypt were under the control of these two separate kingdoms
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
Conquered Jerusalem, destroyed their temple, and enslaved the Jews
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
The basis for the Egyptian belief in the afterlife
What is the story of Osiris & Isis?
The capital of the Hittite Empire
What is Hattusa?
A set of written laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A region of the southwest Asia arching across the northern part of the Syrian Desert and extending from the Nile Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is the Fertile Crescent?