Vocabulary
Technology & Economy
Vocabulary Part II
Gods & Goddesses
Leaders & Laws
100
This was a complex society
What is a civilization?
100
This made many other inventions possible.
What is the wheel?
100
The right to command or influence.
What is authority?
100
Religion in Sumer was based on this.
What is agriculture?
100
This king ruled over the Sumerian city of Uruk.
Who was Gilgamesh?
200
The use of tools and skills to make a product or achieve a goal.
What is technology?
200
These prevented flooding of the rivers.
What are dikes?
200
A new way of doing things.
What is innovation?
200
She was the Babylonian goddess of creation, love, and war.
Who was Ishtar?
200
This story chronicled the adventures and legends of the Sumerian leader.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
An organized system that groups use to make laws and decisions.
What is government?
300
These carried water to different places, then back to the river.
What are canals?
300
The collection of laws written for the people of Babylon to follow.
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
300
Natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, were blamed on this.
What is the gods being displeased with the people.
300
He became the first emperor of the area of the Fertile Crescent.
Who was Sargon?
400
A city or village and its surrounding farmland with its own leaders and government.
What is a city-state?
400
This meant that people could do other activities other than farming.
What is having a surplus of food?
400
This was supposed to ensure fair treatment under the law.
What is equal justice?
400
The people believed that this would happen if the gods and goddesses were happy.
What is a larger harvest?
400
He was the Jewish leader who lead his people out of slavery.
Who was Moses?
500
A system of government in which a king or queen rules.
What is a monarchy?
500
The system in which people were categorized depending on status, wealth, and power.
What is division in society, or a Class System?
500
Natural disasters were blamed on this.
What is the gods being angry or displeased with the people.
500
This was an activity center, and also a center for some religious ceremonies.
What is a Ziggurat?
500
These two colonies of people created the alphabet, and coined money, respectively.
Who are the Phoenicians and the Lydians?
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