Geography
This was the nickname for Mesopotamia. It describes the quality of the soil.
What is the "Fertile Crescent"?
This invention revolutionized transportation.
What is the wheel?
This is the term for the form of writing used in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This group was known for their seafaring skills and luxurious trade goods.
Who are the Phonecians?
"If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out" is a quote from this.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
"Mesopotamia" literally means this.
What is "the land between the rivers"?
The Phoenicians created a 22-letter this.
What is alphabet?
This was the first code of law.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This group took over the Assyrians.
Who are the Chaldeans?
This majestic temple in Babylon looked like it was touching the clouds.
What is the Tower of Babel?
Mesopotamia is situated between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The Mesopotamian number system was based on this number.
What is 60?
The Mesopotamian empire was separated into these small units, each governing itself.
What is a city state?
This leader ushered in a time of peace (for 200 years)!
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Besides iron weapons, the Assyrians used this type of weaponry in battle.
What are bows and arrows?
Mesopotamia was located in these modern day countries.
What are Iraq, Iran, and Syria?
This development changed agriculture, allowing farmers to bring water to fields from the nearby rivers.
What is irrigation?
The Mesopotamians believed in more than one god, which is called this.
What is polytheism?
Considered one of the "Ancient Wonders of the World", this botanical wonder was in the city of Babylon.
This empire was the most stable and powerful within Mesopotamia.
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers did this frequently, but unpredictably.
What is flood?
A ziggurat mainly served this purpose.
What is a religious temple?
This is the term for the stone pillar that Hammurabi's Code was inscribed on.
What is a stele?
This leader created a system of roads that connected and unified the Persian Empire.
Who is Darius I?
Cuneiform was this, meaning that symbols represented ideas and pictures.
What is pictographic?