Sumerians
Skilled writers.
What is a scribe?
Chaldeans believed they were descendants of this great priest-king.
Who was Hammurabi?
Established a code of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
What is a ziggurat?
Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Israel make up this area of the world that has rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Type of weapons that gave the Assyrians an advantage.
What is iron?
Capital of Chaldean empire.
What is Babylon?
Created 1st empire.
Who was Sargon I?
First Sumerian Kings were probably this.
What are warriors?
Wedge-shaped writing.
What is cuneiform?
Assyrian capital that contained world's first library.
What is Nineveh?
Group of traveling merchants.
What is a caravan?
Designed the Hanging Gardens.
Locations for all cradles of civilizations, including Mesopotamia.
What are river valleys?
Made buildings out of this.
What are mud bricks?
Group that overthrew the Assyrians.
Who are the Chaldeans?
People who study heavenly bodies.
What are astronomers?
Hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds.
Who was Gilgamesh?
Small particles of rich soil.
The 2 rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Political districts.
What are provinces?
Conquered the Chaldeans.
Who were the Persians?
Created world's first library.
Who was Ashurbanipal?
Method of bringing water to crops.
What is irrigation?