Geography
Characteristics
Sumer
Babylon/Assirya
Phoenicia/Persia
100
Located in Southwest Asia, stretching from Modern day Turkey to the Persian Gulf
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The opposite of monotheism.
What is polytheism?
100
Sumer was considered this.
What is the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
100
Area of many territories and people controlled by one government.
What is an empire?
100
the Phoenicians located in this area
What is along the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The Land is also known as this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Responsibilities included supervised food production, creation of laws, tax collection
What is government?
200
Temples built to honor the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
200
United the Sumerian city-states with Babylon as its capital.
Who is King Hammurabi?
200
The __________ used by the Phoenicians was virtually the same as the one we use today.
What is the alphabet?
300
Silt was a kind of soil left behind from this.
What is flooding rivers?
300
Depended on wealth, occupation and position in a civilization.
What is social class?
300
The name given to cities that were loosely connected with different governments and different rulers.
What is a city-state?
300
Hammurabi's code was recorded on this.
What is a stele?
300
The most famous trading outpost set up by the Phoenicians.
What is Carthage?
400
2 examples of irrigation systems were this.
What is basins, canals, dikes
400
Writing systems fulfilled this need.
What is record keeping?
400
Invented this for farming.
What is the wheel and the plow?
400
These contained clay tablets that were for keeping written records.
What are libraries?
400
This 1500 mile stretch of road linked the Persian empire together.
What is the Royal Road.
500
The first civilizations were located here.
What is river valleys?
500
Political Cultural and economic centers.
What are cities?
500
Cuneiform
What is the earliest system of writing?
500
The Assyrian empire fell to this group.
Who are the Medes?
500
The Ten thousand Immortals were an elite army formed under this emperor.
Who is Darius I?
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