Mesopotamia
Two rivers giving Mesopotamia its name.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Good making the Phoenicians famous.
What is purple dye from sea snails (Tyrian Purple)?
The Babylonian king who created a strict code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Earliest known system of writing using wedge-shaped marks.
What is cuneiform?
Resource Phoenicians supplied that was used in Egyptian mummification?
What is cedar resin?
Reason Mesopotamia often called the “Cradle of Civilization”.
What is because farming, cities, and writing first developed there?
Reason the Phoenicians became traders instead of farmers.
What is because their land had little room for crops?
Code of Hammurabi showed this about Mesopotamian laws?
What is that they were written down for all to see?
Job of scribes have in Mesopotamia.
What is keeping records and writing?
Resource Egypt and Mesopotamia lacked that made Phoenician trade essential.
What is wood (cedar)?
Main purpose of irrigation in Mesopotamia.
What is to bring water to dry farmland?
Phoenician city that became a major colony.
What is Carthage?
Hero of one of the world’s first written epics.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Invention NOT from Mesopotamia: the potter’s wheel, arch, time system, or fireworks
What is fireworks?
Phoenician city known as a center for bookmaking?
What is Byblos?
Empire who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
How Phoenician sailors navigated at night.
What is using the stars, including the North Star?
Fierce warrior people who used iron weapons and cruel tactics?
Who are the Assyrians?
Story marking one of the world’s oldest recorded epics.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Phoenician ships allowed their people to do this.
What is long-distance trade and exploration?
Ordered the construction of the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
Phoenician explorer who may have sailed around Africa long before Vasco da Gama.
Who is Hanno?
King who built the Hanging Gardens for his homesick wife.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
One of the first in the world, created by the Assyrians with clay tablets.
What are libraries with clay tablets?
Three items the Phoenicians traded.
What are metal objects, cedar wood, and purple dye?