The Sumerians
A large city wall
He ruled the people of Akkad.
Sargon
Hammurabi
The Assyrians had a well-trained and disciplined ________.
army
What unusual product made the Phoenicians extremely wealthy?
Dye from purple snails
Sumer was located in the Fertile Crescent between these two rivers.
The Tigris and the Euphrates
Sargon formed the world's first _________.
empire
This group joined in with the Babylonians to fight the Assyrians.
The Medes
provinces
What important contributions did the Phoenicians make to language?
They were the first to come up with an alphabet.
Sumerians created a system of writing called this.
Cuneiform
What two territories did Sargon unite?
Sumer and Akkad
Hammurabi is best known for creating this.
A code of laws for his empire
The Assyrians conquered the ______________ empire and were conquered by the _______________ empire.
Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian
Who conquered the Phoenicians?
Alexander the Great
Name three innovations that the Sumerians came up with in the areas of technology and mathematics.
The wheel, carts, chariot, sailboat, wooden plow, bronze, place value system, math tables, 12-month calendar.
Sargon's empire grew wealthy from t______ and t__________.
These were the first two rulers of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II
This Assyrian king built one of the world's first libraries.
Ashurbanipal
What two cities fought in the Punic Wars?
Rome and Carthage
Name one group in the upper class, one in the middle class, and one in the lower class.
Upper: kings, priests, government workers, warriors
Middle: merchants, farmers, fishers, artisans
Lower: enslaved people
Sargon eventually conquered all the people of Mesopotamia. His empire lasted this long.
200 years
Give three reasons why the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell.
Nebuchadnezzar died, weak kings followed, poor harvests, slow trade, Persian invasion
What were three examples of the Assyrians brutality?
They robbed people, set crops on fire, destroyed towns and dams, forced people to pay tribute, moved people from homes to new lands.
Name four far-away destinations that the Phoenicians traded with.
Greece, Spain, Western Africa, and Britain