Empires
Religions
Ways of life and other things!
The area
Writing
100
Empires were made up of these which had their own separate government.
What is a city-state?
100
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
A city-state.
What is a city with its own separate government?
100
This area was named after its rich soil and its shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
A professional writer of cuneiform.
What is a scribe?
200
Civilization that sold purple dyed cloth.
Who are the Phoenicians?
200
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
200
The reason civilization grew and thrived in the Fertile Crescent.
What is the rich fertile soil?
200
The two rivers forming the fertile area of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
A great contribution made by people living in the Fertile Crescent.
What is written language, written laws, or farming advances such as plows and irrigation?
300
The creator of Babylonia.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Civilization that worshiped one god.
Who were the Israelites?
300
A benefit of living in the Fertile Crescent.
What is the ability to grow larger crops, and travel by river.
300
What was created by the two rivers of Mesopotamia.
What is fertile farmland?
300
Developed an alphabet based on sounds of speech, similar to what we use today, that made it easier for everyone to read and write.
Who were the Phoenicians?
400
The capitol of the Babylonian empire.
What is Babylon?
400
The reason the Israelites left Egypt to go to Canaan.
What is a famine?
400
The sentence in a paragraph that tells what the paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
400
The area where the Israelites settled after leaving Egypt.
What is Canaan?
400
Written language that combined groups of wedges and lines.
What is cuneiform?
500
Conquered the Assyrians.
What are the Medes and Chaldeans?
500
Stories about gods that explained the beliefs of the people.
What is a myth?
500
Sentences in a paragraph that give more information about the main idea.
What is a supporting detail?
500
The reason the city of Babylon was so important to Babylonia.
What is Babylon was the crossroad between Sumer and Assyria?
500
The first written document stating laws and punishment for all people.
What is Hammurabi's code?
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