Supplies and groups
What group invented the sundial and studied heavenly bodies?
Who were the Chaldeans?
What was the key resource of Sumer? Where was it developed in?
Water, Mesopotamia or Fertile Crescent
Who invented the library?
Ashurbanipal
The Assyrians demanded _________. Hint: Starts with T
Tribute
Who traveled the Imperial roads?
Messengers
The Assyrian Empire included modern:
Iran, Iraq, syria, and Turkey
1 Who mad the hanging gardens?
2 What kept them green?
3 How tall was the golden roofed ziggurat?
1 Nebuchanezzar
2. Irrigation
3. 300'
Persian Gulf, Medeterian sea
What left New Babylon vulnerable to be attacked by the Persians?
Weak kings and poor harvests.
What brought wealth for the Akkadians?
Trade
What is a group of traveling merchants?
Caravan
True or false: The Assyrians spoke Assyrian but wrote Sumerian
False
What two people established the New Babylonian Empire?
Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzer
Who mastered iron technology? Who used iron technology?
Hititites, Assyrians
What is another word for "eldest son takes over?"
Heretitary
50,000, infantry, calvary, chariots
Who ruled the Akkadians? What was the first empire?
Sargon, Akkadian Empire
Ninevah stretched from ____ to ______
Egypt, Persian Gulf
Chaldeans, Medes
Why was sumer isolated? What was one of their most important inventions?
They had no way to communicate with others, wheel
What did the Assyrians fight with?
Bows and arrows, slingshots, and spears
The Tigris river, Provinces
Mesopotamia is also known as _____? What writing did Sumer use?
Cradle of Civilization, cuneiform
What is another word for male centered? Which place was male cenered?
Patriotcy, Sumer
What group built roads and protected them?
Ninevah