Farming, The Fertile Crescent, and The Euphrates & Tigris
Sumer & Babylon
Scribes, School, & Cuneiform
Cities, Religion, & Politics
Hammurabi, Sargon, & The Falling of Babylon
100
Wheat & Barley
What were the Mesopotamian's two most important crops?
100
This was when Sumer grew in Southern Mesopotamia.
What is 3000 BC?
100
This type of writing was developed by Sumerians around 3500 BC.
What is cuneiform?
100
This ruler of Mesopotamia had ties to the story of Noah's Arc and the Greek story of the Odyssey.
What is Gilgamesh?
100
"An eye for an eye" and "a tooth for a tooth" was said by this person, who was Babylon's king.
What is Hammurabi?
200
"Land Between two Rivers"
What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
200
Generals, judges, canal overseers, and kings.
What were the roles of kings in a Sumerian area?
200
Mostly this gender would become scribes (scribes were the only ones who could write)
What are boys?
200
This was a self-governing city that also governs local villages.
What is a city-state?
200
689 BC this happened.
What is Babylon being conquered by Ninevah?
300
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
What present-day countries did this area cover?
300
City description:
Moats, hanging gardens, Ziggurat, underwater tunnel, sewers, streets in a grid pattern.
What is Babylon's city like?
300
These were the amount of characters in cuneiform.
What is 500 signs?
300
A large building in the center of the city with a temple on top.
What is a Ziggurat?
300
Southern cities rebelled, armies from the North and East took over,and old leaders were overthrown.
What is the way Babylon fell apart?
400
Mesopotamia was developing in the North-East at this time.
What is 4000 BC?
400
These were the two rivers that Sumer controlled.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris?
400
Cuneiform was first used to record these.
What is farm surpluses?
400
The belief that there is more than one god.
What is polytheism?
400
He united the city-states in 2300 BC. Some of his accomplishments included:
1. Expanding the empire North into Syria
2. Trading with the Phoenicians
3. Uniting his kingdom through cuneiform
What is Sargon?
500
A plateau.
What is an area of elevated flat-land called?
500
Some of the Sumerian and Babylonian jobs were these.
What is pottery, making wheels, sailboats, and exploring math and science?
500
These were what some could get scribes to write for them.
What are stories, laws, songs, and love letters?
500
Silver, copper, timber, and wine.
What is the shipments that the empire of Babylonia received?
500
Hammurabi begins to try to control Sumer at this time.