Vocabulary
This is fine particles of fertile soil.
What is silt?
This group of people were the first to use and make bronze.
Who are the Sumerians?
This king created the Babylonian Empire and a law code with harsh punishments.
Who is Hammurabi?
This empire was created by Nebuchadnezzar and his father, Nabopolassar.
What is the New Babylonian Empire?
This region of land was located on the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This is a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero.
What is an epic?
Farmers in Mesopotamia used this system of bringing water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to their crops.
What is irrigation?
This leader rebuilt Babylon and built the Hanging Gardens for his wife.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This empire stretched from the Tigris-Euphrates valley to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
People settled in the valleys of these TWO rivers in about 4000 B.C.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This is a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender.
What is tribute?
This Sumerian invention is used today to help cars travel.
What is the wheel?
This leader created the first empire.
Who is Sargon?
This empire controlled land from the Persian Gulf to the Nile River.
What is Assyria?
Farmers dug these to bring water from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to their crops.
What are canals or irrigation systems?
This is a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay.
What is cuneiform?
Sumerians used this to see the best times to plant crops and have religious ceremonies.
What is astronomy?
This king was crowned king of Babylonia after defeating the Assyrians.
Who is Nabopolassar?
This kingdom became the first empire after Sargon conquered all of Mesopotamia.
What is Akkad?
Sumerian city-states controlled this part of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
What is the lower part?
This is a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire.
What is a province?
The Chaldeans invented this to help tell time.
What is the sundial?
Leaders from this empire divided their land into provinces and appointed government officials to oversee them.
What is Assyria?
The Persians captured this empire after it because weak due to weak kings, poor harvests, and slow trade.
What is the Chaldean Empire?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flooded in the spring because of these two reasons.
What are rain and melting snow?