Cradle of Civilization
It included parts of the modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a Ziggurat?
He was the Babylonian king, who began conquering cities controlled by the Amorites to the north and south.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Tigris and Euphrates flooded so the Sumerians developed this.
What is irrigation?
6) What did Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make its army stronger?
What is how to make iron weapons.
Mesopotamia was located on a flat plain between these two rivers.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Sumerians created this way of writing.
What is cunieform?
He posted this for all the town to see.
What is Hammurabi's code?
The Tigris and Euphrates River formed this.
What is a river valley and the fertile Crescent?
King Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
What is he built them for his homesick wife?
Went to war with each other over political borders and resources not trade.
What are the City-state of Sumer?
Who is a scribe?
The basic principle of Hammurabi's Code.
What is 'An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth?
This group rebelled against the Assyrians.
Who are The Chaldeans?
He conquered all of the people of Mesopotamia, creating the world's first empire that lasted more than 200 years.
Who is Sargon?
What is a wheel?
The troops numbered around 50,000 soldiers.
What is the Assyrian Army?
It was surrounded by huge brick walls, and soldiers kept watch in towers that were built into the walls with grand palaces and temples located in the center.
What is Babylon?
He was the hero of an epic from the oldest written story in history.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
They used this to measure the size of fields and to plan buildings. They created a place-value system of numbers based on 60.
What is Math?
Forced payments taken from conquered people.
What is a tribute?
This city was the capital of the Assyrian empire.
What is Ninevah?