Vocabulary
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A belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
The two rivers that the earliest known civilization developed between
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
One of the largest and richest cities of Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?
A group of merchants who travel together to trade goods.
What is a caravan?
Name ALL five themes of Geography
Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human Environment Interaction
A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
Farmers used _________ to irrigate the floodwaters.
What are levees?
This king built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge shaped marks.
What is cuneiform?
This city is the capital of New Jersey.
What is Trenton?
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A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams
What is irrigation?
Since food became plentiful, not all people needed to farm. Some people became artisans, which is an example of_______________. (Think of an old vocab word)
What is specialization?
This king formed the first Babylonian Empire and had a harsh set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Groups of people divided into an upper, middle and lower.
What is a social class?
This fictional pop-star is living "The Best of Both Worlds" in this hit Disney Channel show.
Who is Hannah Montana?
A term for a place that governs itself and its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
This invention, often pulled by animals, made farming easier.
What is the plow?
The capital of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
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One of the world's oldest stories is a poem titled _________________________.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The Hulk goes by this name in every day life.
(The original question was Captain America, but somebody told Dylan the answer.)
Who is Bruce Banner?
A long poem that records details of a real hero
What is an epic?
Sumer was located in ___________ Mesopotamia. (location)
What is southern?
The name of the group of people who conquered the Assyrians and formed the New Babylonian Empire.
Who are the Chaldeans?
This group of people take over the Chaldeans and add Mesopotamia to their empire.
Who are the Persians?
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This hornbill bird is Mufasa's most trusted adviser in the hit Disney film, The Lion King.
Zazu