An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory
What is a city state
100
An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
What is ally?
100
Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins.
What is currency?
100
A good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
What is an import?
100
To water crops.
What is irrigate?
200
A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
What is barter?
200
A state containing several countries or territories.
What is an empire?
200
Payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power.
What is tribute?
200
A good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's border.
What is an export?
200
The two rivers that the Mesopotamian plain lies between.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
A system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for ideas and things.
What is cuneiform?
300
The idea that all members of a society must obey the law, even the rich and powerful.
What is rule of law?
300
Soldiers who fight while riding horses.
What is cavalry?
300
A group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state.
What is a colony?
300
This allowed the Assyrian Empire to gain power by using tools and weapons made of iron.
What is the iron?
400
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
400
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
The Persian leader who rose to power by conquering the Medes.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
400
A civilization having few natural resources, flourished once they began to use ships to trade and created colonies to trade with.
What is Phoenician?
400
Persian leader who led the empire to expansion due to great wealth, roads, and a postal system.
Who is Darius the Great?
500
Where would a Sumerian priest live?
What is a ziggurat.
500
Give an example of Hammurabi's Code.
What is an eye for an eye, if he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken, if anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death, etc.
500
Assyrian ruler whose empire extendned as far west as Egypt. He destroyed the temple in Jerusalem.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
500
A Phoenician accomplishment. Contains a small set of letters or symbols, each which stands for a sound.