Inventions
The system used to bring water to crops through ditches, streams and pipes
What is irrigation?
The two rivers that fed water Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The kingdom in Northern Mesopotamia around 2340 B.C..
What is Akkad?
The approximate year civilizations began to develop in the river valleys of Mesopotamia?
What is 3000 B.C.?
The creator of a code of laws that protected everyone, including those with little power
Who is Hammurabi?
The people who studied the stars, planets and phases of the moon.
Who are astronomers?
The form of symbols marked into clay and baked to create a record.
What is cuneiform?
What body of water (not rivers) bordered Sumer?
What is the Persion Gulf?
The civilization in southern Mesopotamia that developed by 3000 B.C.
What is Sumer?
In about 627 B.C., Nabopolassar led a revolt against these people, defeating them, and becoming king of Babylonia.
Who are the Assyrians?
The ambitious leader of Akkad who moved his armies south conquering Sumerian city-states one by one to finally create the kingdon of Sumer and Akkad.
Who is Sargon?
The merchants traveling in groups to the city of Babylon to sell goods and products.
What are caravans?
The invention of this makes today's transportation possible.
What is the wheel?
The modern day country where Mesopotamia was.
What is Iraq?
The Empire that arose about 1000 years after Hammurabi that was located in modern day Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
The boundaries of the Empire of Assyria.
What are the Persion Gulf to Egypt.
The creator of one of the first libraries.
Who is Ashurbaipal?
The name of this moon shaped location that was covered with rich soil called silt
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A key factor in the success of the Assyrians over their opponents was the development of this kind of weapon.
What is iron?
The capital city of Assyria.
What is Ninevah
The empire that defeated the Assyrian Empire.
What is the Chaldean Empire?
The device for measuring years based on the cycles of the moon that was created by Sumerians
What is the calendar?
This group of people defeated the Chaldeans, captured Babylon, and made Mesopotamia part of their empire.
Who are the Persians?
A complex irrigation system brought water from the Euphrates to water the gardens of this site - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is Babylon's Hanging Gardens.