Lesson 1 Vocabulary
Greek for land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
a group of traveling merchants
What is a caravan?
Where the first civilizations arose because of farming conditions
What is the river valleys?
What the Hittites taught the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger
What is how to use stronger metals for iron weapons?
Inventions by the people of Mesopotamia include (There are 8 in the response list--Name four or more)
What are the wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, potter's wheel, bronze, copper, tin?
complex societies that have organized governments, culture, and writing
What is civilization?
The Assyrian Empire's Capital city
What is Ninevah?
a Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called
What is a ziggurat?
the part of Babylon that was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What is the Hanging Gardens?
set of laws dealing with crimes, farming, business, marriage, and the family with punishment listed for each crime
What is Hammurabi's code?
a method to bring water to crops
What is irrigation?
a political district
What is a province?
occupations of many Sumarians. Name at least two.
What are farmers, artisans (metal workers, cloth makers, pottery makers)?
Who the Chaldeans defeated in 612 B.C.
What is Assyria?
The Sumerians worshipped many gods. The type of belief this is
What is polytheism?
has its own government but is not part of any larger unit
What is a city-state?
The Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
The high position few Sumerians who learned how to write often held
What is scribe?
The mountain people who captured Babylon in 539 B.C.
Who are the Persians?
A story of a god/human who was a harsh ruler in Uruk in southern Mesopotamia around 2000 B.C. He makes friends with Enkidu and learns to be kind and fair.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
a form of writing developed by the people of Sumer
What is cuneiform?
One who studies stars and planets
What is an astronomer?
What the calendar the Sumerians developed was based on
What is the cycles of the moon?
Babylon became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between these two bodies of water
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf?
The social classes and who were in them in Sumer
What are: upper class (Kings, priests, warriors, officials), middle class (merchants, farmers, fishers, artisans), lowest class (enslaved who were captives, criminals, and debtors)?