Vocabulary
"extra supply"
What is surplus?
Farmers in Sumer used these two rivers to water their crops.
What is the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
Leader of the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon?
Assyrians were feared for this.
What is their military might and their cruelty?
Name the king of Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
"The skills and knowledge to make products and meet goals."
What is technology?
The technology of Sumer was greatly advanced by the use of the wheel. Wheel technology made this invention possible for the Sumerian people.
What is the wheeled cart?
What were city walls?
Assyrians used this to help expand their territory.
What was the trained army?
Name the most famous king of Neo-Babylonia.
Who was Nebuchadrezzar II?
"A city and the farmlands around it"
What is a city-state?
Huge mud-brick temples
What is a ziggurat?
What is Cuneiform writing?
These brought drinking water to Nineveh from 30 miles away.
What were canals and aqueducts?
Hammurabi is best known for this.
What are his code of laws?
"a centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing, and learning"
What is a civilization?
Having a surplus of food led to this.
What is a division of labor?
What is larger territory which lead to a weaker empire which allowed new invaders to take over?
The Assyrian empire extended from where to where?
What is from Egypt to the Persian Gulf?
Neo-Babylonians built an inner wall and an outer wall around the city. They placed archers on these walls to protect their empire. They also used these to keep people away from their city.
What was a moat?
"one person has complete authority to rule in peacetime and lead soldiers in war time"
What is monarchy?
Define who you would find at each class.
Highest class
Middle class
Slaves
Highest: kings, priests, important leaders
Middle: based on the amount of property owned
Slaves: most were prisoners of war, enslaved as a punishment for crimes, or debt
Akkadian soldiers fought in a tight formation. What was this formation?
What is soldiers carrying shields stood at the front of the formation. Behind them stood soldiers carrying spears. The spear carriers extended their weapons between the shields.
What is in a siege: an army camps outside a city and attacks it over and over again until the city falls.
This flourished during Hammurabi's reign.
What is agriculture and trade?