Sumer
Seige Engines
What was invented by the Sumerians that looked like a tank?
Sargon
Who was the leader who had formed the world's first empire?
Tributes
What are payments made to Kings after a conquest.
The Amorites
Who conquered Mesopotamia and built their own cities in the 1800's B.C. one of them being Babylon?
Greek for "land between the rivers".
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Cuneiform and the wheel
What are two inventions developed by the Sumerians?
Sumer and Akkad
What two regions were combined by Sargon after he conquered most of the city-states in Sumer and Akkad?
Libraries
Who developed the first one in Assyria
King Nebuchadnezzar
Who rebuilt Babylon making it the largest and richest city in the world.
Civilization.
What are complex societies with organized governments, culture and writing called?
City-State
What is a area that has its own government but is not part of any larger unit?
The Amorites
What group of people conquered Mesopotamia and built their own cities including Babylon?
Helped the Assyrians win battles (different type of weapon)
What are iron weapons.
To please his wife.
Why did Nebuchadnezzar build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Irrigation.
What is the method that brings water to crops?
Hammurabi
Who was the Babylonian king that conquered the cities controlled by the Amorites and built the Babylon empire?
Nineveh
What was the capitol of Assyria?
Merchants traveling in groups.
What are caravans?
City-State
What has its own government but is not part of any larger unit?
Polytheism
What was the religion of the Sumerians?
Hammurabi's Code
What is the set of laws Hammurabi created for his empire?
Extended from the Persian Gulf in the east to the Nile River in the west. The empire's capital was at Nineveh.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Sundial and the seven day week.
What are two scientific advancements the people of Babylon created?
Where people honored their chief god.
What is a ziggurat?