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Vocabulary
Inventions
City-States
Climate
100
Who was the first Akkadian leader?
Sargon
100
The land that stretched from the Persian Gulf all the way to the Mediterranean Sea?
Fertile Crescent
100
Who created the wheel?
Summarians
100
How many different social classes did city-states have?
3. Upper, Middle, lower
100
Name the two rivers in mesopatamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
200
Who created the code of laws?
Hammurabi
200
Payment made in return for protection?
Tribute
200
The wedge shape writing is called?
Cuneiform
200
The most important building in the city was called?
A Ziggurat
200
What kind of climate was in the southern mesopatamia?
Arid
300
How long was the royal road?
1,775 miles
300
The fine soil deposited by rivers is called?
Silt
300
What was the invention called that help water the crops?
irrigation
300
When you believe in many gods and goddesses?
Polytheism
300
What were their houses made out of?
mud/clay and reed
400
The people who were the most powerful in Sumerian society were?
Priest
400
forced removal from one's homeland often to lands far away?
exile
400
The sumerians developed _______ to keep records of crops and trade goods? ( not on test)
arithmetic
400
T or F Could women own land and have jobs?
True
400
How thick were the walls around the city-state to protect them from enemies?
25 feet
500
Which empire covered the largest amount of territory?
Persians
500
Practice of allowing people to keep their traditions and beliefs? (question not on test)
Toleration
500
A written languages that uses symbols?
pictograph
500
T or F The lower class only consisted of slaves?
True
500
Which Empire created the hanging gardens?
New Babylonian
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