people
dates
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places
other things
100
He ruled by military dictatorship
Sargon
100
What happened in 2334?
Sargon ruled Kish
100
What is the red empire called?
Akkadia
100
What is the region between 2 rivers?
Mesopotamia?
100
A ruler who gained total power over a country using force
Dictator
200
This fair ruler gave laws that everyone had to follow
Hammurabi
200
What happened in 668 BC?
Ashurbanipal ruled Assyria
200
What do you call this Sumerian invention?
Cuneiform
200
Where was the first library of the ancient world?
Nineveh
200
the army forces the people to obey the government/dictator
military dictatorship
300
He liked putting people's heads on spikes
Shamshi-Adad
300
What year was the Code of Hammurabi given?
1792 BC
300
What is the green empire?
Assyria
300
How far did Ashurbanipal spread his empire?
Canaan and Egypt
300
The civilization that invented the wheel and shaduf
Sumer
400
He was a lion hunter
Ashurbanipal
400
Shamshi Adad was the ruler of Assyria in what year?
1813
400
Stele
400
Abram came from this city in Sumer
Ur
400
each city is like its own country, with its own king and its own army
city-states
500
His sons bickered after his death and the kingdom was weakened
Shamshi-Adad
500
What happened around 2100 BC?
Abraham traveled to Canaan
500
What is the yellow empire?
Babylonia
500
What river did Sargon float down as a baby?
Euphrates
500
Where is this law found: If a man builds a house badly, and it falls and kills the owner, the builder is to be killed. If the owner's son was killed, then the builder's son is to be killed.
Code of Hammurabi
600
Final Jeopardy
What is the name of the curator at the British Museum for ancient Mesopotamia, who taught us to play the Royal Game of Ur?