VOCABULARY
GEOGRAPHY
SOCIAL CLASSES
ACHIEVEMENTS
LATER PEOPLES
100
"The land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia
100
A legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
They had been chosen by the gods to rule.
Who are the kings?
100
A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
100
This included 282 laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
A large arc of rich fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
First ruler to have a permanent army and defeated all the city-states of Sumer.
Who is Sargon?
200
They were the links between the Sumerians and the gods.
Who are the priests?
200
This was used for transportation.
What is the wheel?
200
This group mastered ironworking and used the chariot in battle.
Who are the Hittites?
300
An independent community that has its own government, food supply, and god that it honors as its own.
What is a city-state
300
Babylon's greatest king or monarch.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
They were in the upper class and lived in two-story houses in the center of the city and close to the ziggurat.
Who were priests, landowners and government officials.
300
This invention greatly increased production of food.
What is the plow?
300
The Phoenicians helped spread this as they sailed along their trade routes.
What is their alphabet?
400
A multi-story temple that Sumerians built to house and worship their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The most famous Chaldean king.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
400
They made up the large working class.
Who are farmers and laborers?
400
The system used to provide water to crops and avoid floods.
What is the irrigation system?
400
This group rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city with Hanging Gardens.
Who are the Chaldeans?
500
The ancient form of writing invented in Sumer that began as pictographs and evolved into an alphabet.
What is cuneiform?
500
The issue or problem that led to people from different city-states working together.
What is the need to maintain the irrigation system (build up of silt)?
500
They were at the bottom of the social order.
Who are the slaves?
500
The way that food was controlled and distributed to people in Sumer.
What is the priests controlled and distributed it.
500
This group was famous for their cedar trees.
Who are the Phoenicians?
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