Vocabulary
This word means "land between the rivers"
Mesopotamia
The father of the Hebrews
Abraham
The first empire to unite Mesopotamia was which one?
Akkadians
The Sumerians invented some of these things (at least two)
Wheel, cuneiform writing, irrigation, plow
The name of the first civilization in Mesopotamia
Sumer
This is an independent city surrounded by farming villages
city-state
Man who wrote down Babylonian laws into a Code
Hammurabi
Very cruel conquerors who ruled with terror
Assyrians
Sumerian temples built in the middle of the city
ziggurat
The belief in only one god
monotheism
The term for controlling floods and distributing water to lands when there is no rain?
Irrigation
This person led the people out of slavery in Egypt
Moses
This group of people gained control of Mesopotamia AFTER the Akkadians
Babylonians
This is the Sumerian form of writing
What is cuneiform
polytheism
A man-made mound of dirt used to hold back flooding water
levee
This king had a policy of toleration when he ruled which was a first of its kind.
Cyrus the great
This empire had the largest empire that stretched for over 2500 miles in length and created a policy of toleration under the great king.
Persians
This material was used to build instead of using wood or stones
mud bricks
A person that writes down things for a living is known as what job?
Scribe
The law that was based on the saying an "Eye for an Eye" was known as what?
Code of Hammurabi
This man was the king of the first empire that united all of Mesopotamia for the first time
Sargon
What are the 5 empires of the Fertile Crescent?
Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, New Babylonians, and Persians
What are the 5 traits of a civilization?
Complex institution, improved technology, specialized workers, record keeping, and cities/settlements
When one person has all the control and makes rules for their people, but the rules do not apply to them is known as what?
Absolute power/unlimited government