Geography
The location of Mesopotamia.
What is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Mesopotamia's first Civilization.
What is Sumer?
The basic form of writing based on images of objects first invented by the Sumerians.
What are pictographs?
Ruler that conquered Sumer to establish the powerful Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon the Great?
A contribution by the Mesopotamians that made it easier for people to travel by land.
What is they developed the Wheel?
Factors that helped Sumerian agriculture flourish.
What is fertile soil, irrigation projects, ox driven plows?
The way the civilization of Sumer was organized.
What are separate city states?
Not having enough to eat.
What is famine?
Laws etched in stone on pillars.
What is Hammurabi's code of laws?
A Mesopotamian invention that had a lasting impact on mathematics.
What is an abacus?
One of the first Sumerian city-states with rock walls and canals.
What is the city of Ur?
Sumerian centers for religious worship.
What were ziggurats?
Specialized workers who made things with their hands.
What are artisans?
Used iron weapons instead of bronze.
Who were the Assyrians?
Setting up an extensive sea trade network.
What were the Phoenicians famous for?
The Gulf near Sumer.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The Sumerian's religion.
What is a belief in many gods?
A group of civilizations ruled over by one person.
What is an empire?
He honored local customs and traditions.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
To make communication across the empire easier.
Why Darius I had the 1500 mile long Royal Road built?
Sea to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Three reasons the Sumerians wrote things down.
What is record keeping, planning for the future, keeping stories for the future, taking stock?
A tax paid for protection.
What is tribute?
The Hanging Gardens.
What was the new Babylonian empire known for?
The Phoenicians culture that they shared.
What is their 22 character alphabet?