Vocab
Fine particles of rock.
What is Silt?
These people were enslaved after being captured.
What are (Mesopotamian) solders?
This was one of the benefits of having an empire to some people.
What is better trade?
This king was believed to be the first leader to write a code of laws for an empire and post them where everyone could see them
What is king Hammurabi?
This hero was the old version of Superman.
A place in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
What is Sumer?
An invention that Sumarians used to fight each other that were pulled by donkeys.
What is the wagon?
Assyrians were the first to make this kind of armor that helped them concur other armies.
What is iron?
This feature of the Babylonian cities protected then
What are triple city walls?
This is the name of the hero that helped Gilgamesh slay Humbaba.
a society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure
What is a Civilization?
One of the first wars ever recorded on earth.
What is the war between Sumer and Elam?
this is how long the Assyrian empire lasted.
what are three centuries?
Some people thought that the Babylonians laws were unfair because of these three different laws for these three different kind of people.
What are powerful people, common people, and enslaved people?
The Tigris and Euphrates river started here.
What are the mountains of turkey?
This invention was made by stacking bricks, made of clay and straw until they met at the center.
What is the arch
This was created record the goods people exchanged with each other.
In this year, Assyrian kings began conquering their neighbors and controlling their lands.
What is the year, 900 BCE
This many people lived in Babylon during the Second Millennium BCE.
What is the number 60,000?
These two items that Shamash gave to the king on the stele symbolize power.
What is a septer and a ring?
This is an ancient type of art that was NOT used by Sumarians where the shoulders are frontal and their face is profile.
What is composite view?
These 4 people that had a middle status in Sumer.
What are merchants, artisans, farmers, and fishers?
Ashur was the Assyrians’ original city (today in the modern nation of Iraq). Ashur was also the name of this goddess
What is the Assyrians patron diety?
This is a giant city carefully designed with massive buildings, public squares, libraries, works of art, and fortresses
What is a metropolis?
These two features that Shamash has on the stele tell us that he is a god.
What is an horned crown and fire?