Mesopotamia Empire
The Fertile Crescent is an area of land that includes the ___________ and ________ River.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris River
Hammurabi allowed this empire to continue as long as the rulers paid tribute.
Who are the Assyrians?
Without this, ancient farmers would not have been able to water their crops in the hot, dry months.
What is irrigation?
Another name for a Bazaar.
What is a market?
This ruler allowed the Jew to return to Jerusalem and was called “the anointed of the Lord.”
Who is Cyrus?
The first ever written story and most famous Sumerian epic poem.
What is the Gilgamesh?
The worship of multiple gods, the ziggurats, walls surrounding their city-states, and mud-brick houses are all part of this.
What is the Sumerian civilization?
Hammurabi was the first king of this empire.
What is Babylon?
They served as the link between the Sumerians and the gods.
Who was the priest?
He is said to be responsible for the first-ever set of laws that were written or inscribed.
Who is Hammurabi?
Name of the temples built for the gods.
What is a Ziggurat?
This Empire controlled parts of modern-day Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, Syria, Israel & Egypt at its height of power.
What is the Persian Empire?
The main religion of Persia was called this and is also considered this type of religion.
What are Zoroastrianism and monotheism?
These two land features gave Mesopotamia its name.
What are the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
This ruler improved the legal and economic system, conducted impressive construction projects, and built a canal connecting the Nile River and the Red Sea.
Who is Darius?
This modern-day country is where Mesopotamia was.
What is Iraq?
Name 3 to 5 of the countries that conquered the Assyrians.
What are the Gutians, Amorites, Medes, Chaldeans & Hittites?
An area of land reaching up for Egypt and extending down into Iraq. It was where farming first developed, and the first towns were established.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
Old Assyria was under this ruler when Hammurabi ruled Babylon.
Who is Shamshi-Adad?
The Tigris and Euphrates empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The major advantage the Assyrians had when conquering Mesopotamia.
What are iron weapons?
It is the first known empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
It is known to have 282 laws.
What is Hammurabi's code?
Darius II, Nothus, Artaxerxes II, & Artaxerxes III, were all leaders of this Empire.
What was the Persian Empire?