Geography of Mesopotamia
The two major rivers in the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The first written language created by the ancient Sumerians.
What is a cuneiform?
A group of different lands and people governed by one ruler.
What is an empire?
The capital of the Babylonian Empire.
What is Babylon?
The most famous king of the Chaldeans. (He is also mentioned in the Bible)
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
These allowed the Phoenicians to travel across the Mediterranean Sea for trade.
What are ships?
These were built to help connect the Persian Empire and to allow messages to travel quickly.
What are roads?
This unpredictable event would happen to the rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is flood?
This metal is a mixture of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
The great Akkadian ruler! Legend has it as a baby he was found adrift in a basket.
Who is Sargon the Great?
The most famous ruler of the (First) Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
By far the most famous structure built in the Chaldean capital city of Babylon.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Invented to help them trade, this was the Phoenicians most important export.
What is the alphabet?
This famous ruler controlled Persia at the height of its power.
Who is Darius I?
A fertile soil brought by rivers.
What is silt?
A term for a category of people based on wealth or status in a society, often depicted in a pyramid.
What is social class?
A protection tax charged to a conquered people.
What is tribute?
Another name for partnerships, the Babylonians successfully conquered Mesopotamia by creating these.
What are alliances?
This metal gave the Assyrians a huge advantage in battle.
What is iron?
This is the meaning of the word "Phoenicians."
What is "purple dye people?"
This "great" leader created the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The meaning of the word “Mesopotamia”.
What is the "land between rivers?"
The term for the belief in many gods. Lowercase "g"!
What is polytheism?
The long lost capital of the Akkadian Empire.
What is Akkad?
The name of the 282 laws created to govern the Babylonian Empire.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The other name for the Chaldean Empire.
What is the New Babylonian Empire?
Outposts of people from one land who live in another.
What are colonies?
Administrative districts, the Persian Empire had 20 of these.
What are provinces?
This term means the watering of fields using human made systems.
What is irrigation?
These tall step temples were believed to house the Sumerians' gods.
What are ziggurats?
These events were the reason that Sumer was weak and was able to be conquered by the Akkadians.
What are internal wars and invasions?
The tribe from western Mesopotamia who founded the Babylonian Empire.
Who are the Amorites?
The Assyrian capital that was also named after their God.
What is Ashur?
This region was the home of the Phoenicians and was perfect for trade.
What is the eastern Mediterranean?/What is Lebanon?
The capital of the Persian Empire, a city decorated with palaces and jeweled statues.
What is Persepolis?