Early Humans
Early humans who hunted and gathered for their food.
What is hunter gatherers?
Also referred to as "land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
The city state in which this nation derives from.
What is Akkad?
City in which the Babylonian Empire originated.
What is Babylon?
Process used to embalm the dead typically used for wealthy, rich individuals.
What is mummification?
Group of people that walk from place to place because they have no permanent home.
What is nomads?
The two rivers in which Mesopotamia seats between.
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
What Sargon means in Akkadian.
What is true king?
Babylon is located on this river.
What is the Euphrates River?
The large river that runs through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
These were some of the struggles of the first humans.
What is ....?
was the first civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
The first king of Akkad and responsible for ruling the worlds first empire.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
These were said to be as high as 40 ft tall, and built by Nebuchadnezzar II.
What are the walls of Babylon?
What is a desert?
The belief in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
These group of people lived in Sumer.
Who are the Sumerians?
Who the Akkadians conquered.
Who are the Sumerians?
Said to be the first written set of laws that still influence us to this day.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Egypt is broken into these two regions.
What is upper and lower?
Also referred to as Paleolithic Age.
What is the Stone Age?
Farming in a set area of land and cultivating crops.
What is agriculture?
Type of army used by Sargon of Akkad
What is a standing army?
Type of writing scrawled in a moist clay tablet then sun dried for future use.
What is cuneiform writing?
The great tombs built in Egypt for their pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
Also known as the Neolithic Age.
What is the New Stone Age?
The process of building a series of ditches or channels to feed crops.
What is agricultural?
Type of siege weapons used by Sargon's armies.
What is a battling ram and siege tower?
A large market place located in the central of large cities.
What is a bazaar?
Paper made of a plant located along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
A city that has its own government body, military and many other comment aspects in line with its own nation.
What is a city state?
The keeping of and raising of animals in one distinct area.
What is domestication?
Stone stepped temple that was built to the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
King that arose in the new era of Babylonian Kings said to have brought Babylon to its glory.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
Written Egyptian script found on their temples and tombs.
What is heiroglyphics?
Bronze is comprised of the these two metals.
What is copper and tin?
What is silt?
Akkad started out as this type of city.
What is a city state?
This group of people conquered the Babylonians and eventually destroyed their empire.
Who are the Persians and Cyrus the Great?
Wet marshland located at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Age defined by its use of the combination of copper and tin.
What is the Bronze Age?
This was a continuous problem for the first group of humans who tried to live and farm along the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.
What is flooding?
Goddess that fell in love with Sargon and convinced him to take over Mesopotamia.
Who is Ishtar?
Babylon is located in this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
A religious based government, that Egypt is based off of.
What is a theocracy?
Considered the "cradle of civilization" and the first humans originated from here.
What is Africa?
This was the first ever recorded agricultural village discovered in present day Mesopotamia.
What is Catal Hyuk?
The curse that is said to be responsible for the collapse of the Akkadian Empire.
What is the curse of Agade?
The massive gate considered one of the original seven wonder world.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
This is the reason the Egyptians Empire fell.
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