Tigris & Euphrates
Name the land between the 2 rivers.
Fertile Crescent
Building located in the center.
ziggurat
Sumerian system of writing.
cuneiform
Group of people that bought and sold goods.
merchants
Emperor of Akkad for 55 years.
Sargon
First civilization between the 2 rivers.
Sumer
Built around the city for protection.
About how many symbols in the Sumerian writing system.
700
Sumerians worshipped gods called...
deities
King of Babylon for 40 years.
Hammurabi
A river that flows into a larger river.
tributary
Buildings near the ziggurat.
government buildings
People who knew how to write.
scribes
Kings and nobles were in which social class?
highest
Code of Hammurabi had how my laws?
282
Soil and tiny rocks left after floods.
silt
Found near the gates.
merchants & shops
What did they write with?
reeds
Most Sumerians where in which class?
middle
By the 700s B.C., who ruled the largest empire in the world?
Assyrians
System used to water fields from the rivers.
irrigation
Describe the houses.
mud & flat roofs
What did they write on?
clay tablets
True or False: Once a slave - always a slave.
false
Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Nebuchadnezzar