Civilization of Sumer
Fertile Crescent
The First Empires
Empires
Mix It Up
100
A wide flat plain in present day Iraq. Lies between two great rivers.
What is Mesopotamia
100
Writing system created by Sumerian Priest
What is cuneiform?
100
A state containing several countries or territories
What is an empire?
100
A carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end
What is a stele?
100
The rivers created rich farmland
Why did civilizations develop in the Fertile Crescent?
200
An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory
What is city-state?
200
A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
What is barter?
200
An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
What is an ally?
200
An area ruled by a distant country
What is a colony?
200
A group of people traveling together
What is a caravan?
300
Because cities in Sumer were separated by long stretches of desert
What is city-state?
300
Included top officials, powerful priests, wealthy merchants, and owners of large plots of land
What is upper class
300
An idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture
What is a cultural trait?
300
A small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound
What is an alphabet?
300
Hebrews
What were the Israelites first called?
400
Shaped like a crescent moon
How did the Fertile Crescent get it's name?
400
The practical application of knowledge to accomplish a task
What is technology?
400
A Babylon king who became the center of a new Mesopotamian empire
Who is Hammurabi?
400
To supply water to land
What is irrigation?
400
Writing was first developed here
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Belief in more than one god
What is polytheism
500
These 2 are a key part of life in the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
500
The idea that all members of a society must obey the law
What is rule of law?
500
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
What is Hammurabi's Code?
500
This man taught his people to practice monotheism
Who is Abraham?
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