Geography
These two rivers flow through Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
He was famous for writing a code of law
Who is Hammurabi?
The first city
What is Ur?
People who study the heavenly bodies
Who are astronomers?
This was the name of a hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds
Who is Gilgamesh?
This is the main river in Egypt
What is the Nile?
This king conquered all of the peoples of Mesopotamia, creating the world’s first empire that lasted more than 200 years.
Who is Sargon?
This empire excelled in astronomy.
Who are the Chaldeans?
These were professional record keepers.
Who are scribes?
The first real rulers of Ancient Sumer were probably these type of people.
Who are war heroes?
This nicknamed region includes parts of the modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
This king built the Hanging Gardens/
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This peoples' army numbered around 50,000 soldiers, including infantry, cavalry, and charioteers.
Who are the Assyrians?
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
During the summer in Mesopotamia, warm temperatures caused this disastrous result.
What are floods?
This was the capital of the Assyrian empire.
What is Assur?
This ruler led his armies South from Akkad
Who is Sargon?
This group rebelled against the Assyrians
Who are the Chaldeans?
Sumerian artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group
The site of one of the world’s first libraries
What is Nineveh?
The name of the region in Southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
This king built the worlds first library
Who is Ashurbanipal?
The first large army to use iron weapons, which they learned from the Hittites.
Who are the Assyrians?
The Assyrians split up their empire into these.
What are provinces?
These were the reasons not a lot of people were scribes.
What is it was difficult to master, and expensive to afford training?