Mesopotamian Leaders
Achievements
Laws
Rivers
100
I created the first uniformed set of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
100
These were built using the advanced technologies of engineering and irrigation.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
100
This was the first uniform set of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
The Tigris and Euphrates.
What are the two rivers of Mesopotamia?
200
I created the world's first empire.
Who was Sargon?
200
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
200
I wrote the first set of uniformed laws. You could also call it a code.
Who was Hammurabi?
200
These tiny particles of fertile soil were left after floods.
What is silt?
300
I was king of the Assyrians and created one of the first libraries.
Who was Ashurbanipal?
300
Writing created by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
300
This group could see the code of laws.
Who were all citizens?
300
This ditch was dug to get water from the river to farmlands.
What is irrigation/canal?
400
I created the Hanging Gardens for my homesick wife. I also rebuilt Babylon.
Who was NEbuchadnezzar?
400
A large territory containing many different groups of people that is ruled by one person.
What is an empire?
400
The code showed how this type of system could benefit a civilization.
What is a writing system.
400
These civilizations settled in river valleys.
What are Egypt and Mesopotamia?
500
I was a Chaldean king who revolted against the Assyrians.
Who was NAbopolassar?
500
This is the oldest known written literary saga.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
The moral for writing the code.
What is "the punishment should fit the crime"?
500
This civilization had dependable and regular floods.
What is Egypt?