Geography
This was the Western Sea that connected to Greece and Italy.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Sargon used ______ as a unifying force for his empire.
What is religion?
This was the center of every city-state, acting as a temple, marketplace, and even courthouse.
What is a Ziggurat?
Polytheism is the belief of _________.
What is "many gods"?
The Emergence of Civilization
What is 3000 BC?
These two regions made up the early civilization of Mesopotamia.
What are AKKAD and SUMER?
Sargon conquered this city, and set himself up as a god there.
What is Ur?
The classes of people were divided up into this shape, which also explained population.
What is a triangle / pyramid?
Economy = agriculture + commerce + _______.
What is industry?
The Reign of Sargon
What is 2340 - 2279 BC?
This city was taken over many times by numerous kings, but nonetheless was always rebuilt.
What is Babylon?
Hammurabi called himself a _______ of the people.
What is a shepherd?
These things were the primary source of food that they exported, or sent out to trade.
What is wheat, barley, straw?
The Cuneiform alphabet was based on sound, or ______.
What is pictographic?
The Third Dynasty of Ur.
What is 2112 - 2000 BC?
This was the original or oldest city-state in existence.
What is Uruk?
Hammurabi's laws even expected _______ to follow the rules.
This was the scientific term used to track the moon, stars, planets, etc.
What is ASTRONOMY?
Their number system, being based on 60, gave us the standard measurments for _____.
What is time?
The Reign of Hammurabi.
What is 1792 - 1750 BC?
Name the four smaller seas (starting from the Mediterranean Sea) clockwise.
What is: Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea?
This king ruled longer, of the two.
Who is Hammurabi? ( 4 years )
This was a resource they did not have easy access to, which explains why everything was built using mudbricks.
What is wood?
90 percent or more of the population was in this social group.
What are farmers?
When schools for Scribes were formed.
What is 2500 BC?