Mesopotamia
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
The Sumerian farmers grew different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
Possible answers:
What is wheat, barley, dates, corn?
These are the nomadic people who traveled from place to place in search of food.
Who were the hunters-gatherers?
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
This script of writing was used throughout Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform.
A large arc of fertile land that was good for crops to grow.
What is a fertile crescent?
This was the first Persian King.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
This color is said to have been the inspiration for the Greeks giving the name the Phoenicians.
What is Purple.
This local government official helped the success of the Persian empire.
What is a satrap?
This is the name of the standing army created by Darius.
Who were the Immortals?
This group had extensive trade by boat, sailing throughout the Mediterranean sea and beyond.
Who are the Phoenicians?
This was the first army to use iron weapons.
Who are the Assyrians.
Hero of an Epic who travels the world performing great deeds.
Who is Gilgamesh.
This king oversaw the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
This is the mountain where Moses received the 10 Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of this.
What is the gods were angry with them?
Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"
What is Civilization?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
Who is Hammurabi.
This is a way of supplying water to the land to water crops.
What is irrigation?
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states made of mud bricks, and was built tall to connect to the heavens.
What is a ziggurat?
This person created the Royal Road to facilitate communication within the region of Mesopotamia.
Who is Darius?
This one of the first sophisticated human settlements located in Turkey today.
What is Catal Huyuk?
What approximate years did the Chaldeans rule Babylon?
What is ~600 BCE?
The first empire was the ______ and it was led by ______.
What is the Akkadian and Sargon.