Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
Sumerians
Cyrus the Great
Hammurabi
100
Temple
What is ziggurat
100
Also known as
What is land between the rivers
100
Why was it called the Fertile Crescent
What is rivers flooded their banks and made the land fertile.
100
The Greek historian of the mid-fourth century BC
What is Herodotus
100
An _________ for an Eye and a ________ for a Tooth
What is eye, and tooth
200
Ruler in ancient Egypt
What is Pharaoh
200
Name of the four seas or waters surrounding the area
What is Red sea, Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, and Mediterranean Sea
200
Rivers helped
What is raise crops and care for their goats, cows, and sheep
200
King of the Medes
What is Astyages
200
The set of __________ were made by Hamurabi
What is codes/laws
300
group of nations, territories, or peoples ruled by a single authority.
What is Empire
300
Between which two rivers
What is Tigirs and Euphrates
300
Sumerian slaves could?
What is set up a busniness, borrow money, and buy freedom
300
Produced a son that would seize power from the king?
What is Mandane
300
Codes were written for _____________
What is fairness
400
a succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field.
What is dynasty
400
Civilization times
What is 3500-2500 B.C.
400
Clay molds baked in the sun were called?
What is Bricks
400
Saw that his son was cooked by the king
What is Harpagus
400
Babylonians valued what more than what
What is property more than human life
500
an independent or autonomous entity, not administered as part of another local government.
What is city-state
500
Controlled flooding how?
What is building irrigation systems
500
Most important invention
What is cuneiform/writing
500
Succeeded and overthrew his grandfather the king of Medes
What is Cyrus
500
Ruled or reigned for ___________ years
What is 40
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