Mesopotamia
This is the ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
A wooden tool that allowed farmers to plant crops more effectively and efficiently.
What is the plow?
These places is where wealthy young boys and rich girls went to become scribes or other powerful positions.
What are tablet-houses?
This ruler created a list of rules and punishments that the civilization used to create order.
Who is King Hammurabi?
This wooden box, discovered by Sir Leonard Wooley, provided evidence for the Mesopotamian war and peace.
What was the Standard of Ur?
An archaeologist who is credited for the discovery of most artifacts we have from Sumer and Ur.
An irrigation system that allowed farmers to store water for crops and animals.
These buildings are where Sumerians worshipped their gods.
What are ziggurats?
This empire came from the descendants of Heth, Ham, and Noah.
What was the Hittite Empire?
This king was a ruler who denied God, was humbled, and went on to acknowledge God's power.
Who was King Nebby 2nd?
This type of writing was used in order to keep accurate records from business transactions.
What is cuneiform?
A water irrigation system that allowed farmers to redirect water to the crops and animals.
What is a canal?
The goal of a job in Sumerian culture.
What are scribes?
God used this empire to bring destruction to Ninevah.
What was the Chaldean Empire?
God used these people to bring destruction to Ninevah.
Who were the Assyrians?
The religious belief held by ancient Mesopotamia and Sumer.
What is polytheism?
This was a result of a surplus of crops from farmers.
What are specialized jobs and trades?
A system used in Sumer in which people exchanged goods and services for other goods and services.
What is bartering?
These people were credited for conquering and ending the Sumerian Empire?
Who were the Ammorites?
The later Sumerian civilization was known for using this defensive stance in war.
What is the phalanx?
In Sumerian and Mesopotamian culture, these people were responsible for making decisions and controlling the land.
Who were the priests?
This tool was used for business transactions as a way for businessmen to sign their names.
What is a cylinder scroll?
Sumerian homes and buildings were created with this material.
What is clay and mud-brick?
This city was the capitol for many civilizations and often fought over for control.
What is Babylon?
This king was warned of his failures by a floating hand writing on the wall; however, he didn't acknowledge this and was defeated by the Persians.
Who was King Belshazzar?