Vocab
What is a collection of written laws?
Code of Laws
What is a canal?
A man made waterway
What city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Nineveh
What is polytheism?
The worship of many gods/godesses
What is a military blockade and an attack on a city to force it to surrender?
Siege
What is Irrigation?
The method of supplying water to an area of land or crops
Which civilization was Hammurabi a leader of?
Babylon
What is the name of the successful code of laws that was written by a Babylonian leader?
Hammurabi's Code
What is a long poem that tells the story of a hero?
Epic
What is a drought?
A lack of rain over a long period of time
Which civilization was Nebachadnezzer a leader of?
Neo Babylon
A stable food supply is counted as what element of a civilization?
Geography
What is wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior?
Tribute
What Rivers bordered Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates
What did the Akkadians use to gain power over Sumer?
Military Strategy
Cuneiform, the wheel, and the plow are counted as part of what element of a civilization?
Achievements
What is the way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell (or trade) goods and services to meet people's needs and wants?
Economy
What River, besides the Tigris, bordered the Fertile Crescent?
The Nile
Which leader created the first empire: Hammurabi, Saragon, or Nebachadnezzer?
Saragon
Sumerians believing that their king was a god on earth is part of which TWO elements of a civilization?
Religion and Politics/Government