voicing vocab
A large crescent shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
Fertile Crescent
First empire in Sumer, created when its ruler conqured the surrounding city states.
Akkadia
Had similar culture to early Sumer, such as a class system.
Akkadia
Placed his daughter as preistess of Ur, the city we think Abraham was from.
Sargon
Because of this type of geography the Phoenicians could not do a lot of farming.
Mountainous
A state controling several countries or territoies.
Empire
The fourth empire, known for capturing the Isrealites and exialing them to slavery.
Large amounts of money was spent of building projects like the hanging gardens.
New/ Neo-Babylon
Known from accounts in the Bible like Daniel in the lions den and the 3 men and the firy furnace.
Nebuchadnezzer
Phoenicians would trade ____________, for ____________
Manufatured goods, raw resources
A very fertile piece of land, with foot hill in the north and a dry arid climate in the south.
Mesopotamia
The Fifth empire, know for being the largest of the empires that we studied.
Persia
Places of this empire would give tribute according to the amount of income they produced.
Persia
The three rulers who expanded the Persian Empire from Asia to Europe.
Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius
Phoenicians were able to navigate the Mediterraneon Sea becaue they used what as a guide.
the north star
A system of writing that used triangular shaped symbols to stand for ideas and things.
Cuniform
The second empire, conqured Sumer after Ur-Nammu
Old Babylon
Used new technologies to make tools, weapons, pottery' perfumes, and medicines.
Old Babylon
Known for creating a set of written laws, some of wich are still used today.
Hammurabi
Phoenicia made many of theses along their trade routes to resupply and trade.
Colonies
An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
City-state
The third empire, was know for being a great military state.
Assyria
Had a library filled with cuneiform tablets.
Assyria
This ruler build the capital city of Nineveh for his empire.
Ashurbanipal
the alphabet