Which two land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
What is the Tigris River and the Euphrates
100
What is silt?
What is a mix of rich soil and rock
100
What idea did the Sumerians contribute to math?
What is the number 60 as a measure for time.
100
The first group to rule after Hammurabi were...
Who are the Hittites
100
He was the most famous Chaldean king who built battle damaged Babylon into a beautiful city in which his palace was famous for its gardens.
Who is Nebuchadenzzar
200
Why did crops grew well in Mesopotamia?
What is the Farmland was fertile and water was nearby.
200
What Sumerian invention helped contribute to modern forms of transportation?
What is a wheel
200
What were the Sumerians greatest advances in medicine?
What is treating symptoms and parts of the body
200
The Assyrian capital was named..
What is Nineveh
200
The phoenicians were famous for their...
What is trading fleet
300
What is the difference between canals and rivers?
Canals are made by people
Rivers are natural
300
Why did the Mesopotamians build canals?
What is to control the river's flow
300
What was the purpose of the cylinder seals?
What is to mark property, even if everyone could not read
300
Hammurabi and Nebuchandnezzar both..
What is built up Babylon
300
The Sumerians developed the world's first system of writing called...
What is Cuneiform
400
When did the first cities develop in Mesopotamia?
What is Between 3000 and 4000 BC
400
What happened to surplus food?
What is traded for other goods
400
What best describes a cuneiforms use and shape?
What is a form of writing using wedge shaped symbols.
400
What kind of political unit was Carthage?
What is a colony
400
The Hittites skillfully used the ______________to move quickly around battlefields and fire arrows at their enemy.
Use onomonopeia to describe it's sound...
What is a chariot.
HAHAHHAHA
500
Which sequence of events shows how Mesopotamia developed?
What is 1. People settled where crops could grow.
2. The population grew
3. Villages/cities were formed
500
Scribes had power in Sumerian society. Why?
What is people who could read and write were poweful.
500
What resource were the phonecians well known for?
What is Cedar wood
500
What was the relationship between trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?
What is the alphabet was spread along their trade route.
500
Which natural obstacle led Phoenicians to use the sea for a trade route?