Fertile Crescent/Sumer Civilization
Akkadin & Babylonian Empires
Assyrian & NeoBabylonian Empire
Persian Empire
Phoenician Empire
100
A wide, flat plain found between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers with very rich soil. The world's first civilization began here.
What is Mesopotamia
100
World's first empire
What is Akkadin
100
Soldiers who fought while riding horses; the world's earliest was the Assyrians
What is cavalry
100
A permanent army of professional soldiers; known as the Immortals for the Persians
What is standing army
100
The rulers of Phoenician empires
What are priest-kings
200
An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory
What is city-state
200
King of Akkadin Empire
Who is Sargon
200
Material used by Assyrians to make weapons and tools
What is iron
200
Two benefits of roads
What is trade, travel, horseback messengers
200
The reason for poor agriculture in Phoenicia
Little flat land due to the Lebanon Mountains
300
A Sumerian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
What is cuneiform
300
Ruler of Babylonian Empire
What is Hammurabi
300
The capital of the Assyrian Empire
What is Nineveh
300
First ruler of the Persian Emprie
Who is Cyrus the Great
300
The art of steering from place to place; the Phoenicians were experts at this
What is navigation
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 Code
400
Assyrian Ruler
What is Ashurbanipal
400
The reason for the failed attempt to capture Kush
What is little food and supplies; starvation
400
Three items manufactured by the Phoenicians
What is pottery, glass objects, metal objects, wood furniture, purple cloth dye
500
Three achievements of Sumer
What is irrigation, the wheel, the sail, bronze
500
Two achievements of the Babylonians
What is farming, technology for tool and weapon making, stone and bronze work
500
King of Babylon
Who is Nebuchadnezzar
500
Took over the Persian Empire when Cyrus died
Who is Cambyses
500
The greatest contribution of the Phoenicians
What is the alphabet
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