Vocabulary
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What are the two main Rivers in Mesopotamia?
The Sumerians are well known for creating this group of things. An example is the wheel
inventions
This city-state ruler conquered the Sumerians
Akkad
Babylonians
a group of many lands under one ruler
empire
This river brought water to the Hanging Gardens
What is the Euphrates River?
the first code of Laws
Hammurabi's Code
The king of Akkad
Who was Sargon?
The Assyrian citizens were treated harshly by the rulers. Because of this what did they do?
rebelled
traveling groups made up of merchants
caravans
What is surplus?
Sumer were cut off from other civilizations because they were surrounded by this kind of geography
What are mudflats and the scorching desert?
The Chaladean King who built Babylon
Who was Nebuchanezzar?
What is iron technology?
a pyramid shaped structure with a temple on top
Ziggurat
This large area of fertile land of Mesopotamia is also known as________
The Fertile Crescent
This invention allowed early Mesopotamia farmers to create irrigation
What is a dam?
This group of mountain people captured Babylon in 530 BCE
Who were the Persians?
This military group of people had an army of 50,000 and many new types of weapons
The Assyrian Army
a belief that there is more than one god
polytheism
This is the MAIN reason why people chose to settle in the Fertile Crescent
What are rivers and/or fertile land?
Political and economic control over lands created__________
What are city-states?
In a palace, one of the 7 wonders of the world was created for a king's wife
What are the Hanging Gardens?
How many tablets did the first library in Ninevah have?
25,000