Peoples of Mesopotamia
These people had their own language (non-Semitic) and occupied Southern Mesopotamian cities like Uruk and Ur.
Who are the Sumerians?
This part of the Mediterranean Sea forms the West Coast of Mesopotamia.
What is the Levant?
This word means a stepped pyramid.
What is a ziggurat?
This is the first known empire, founded by Sargon.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
This city was Gilgamesh's hometown.
What is Uruk?
These people came from the Levant and built the Old Babylonian Empire.
Who are the Amorites?
This area of the Near East could also refer to a fruitful pastry.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This phrase means that everybody in an economy has a specific job.
What is a division of labor?
Hammurabi was the most famous king of this empire.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
This city was the center of Hammurabi's empire.
What is Babylon?
These people occupied the Iranian Plateau.
Who are the Elamites?
This is the peninsula of the Hittites.
What is Anatolia?
This word refers to the Biblical Flood.
What is the deluge?
This empire, or dynasty, came after the fall of the Akkadian Empire.
What is the Third Dynasty of Ur?
This city, Abraham's hometown, was the site of a famous ziggurat
What is Ur?
These people occupied Anatolia, or modern Turkey.
Who are the Hittites?
This body of water is the southernmost limit of Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This word means "cloth things" and was traded by the Assyrians.
What are textiles?
When people from the Zagros Mountains took over Babylonia, their empire was called _________ Babylonia.
What is Kassite?
This city in Northern Mesopotamia is mentioned in the Old Testament.
What is Nineveh?
Name three Semitic-speaking peoples in Mesopotamia.
Amorites, Kishites, Akkadians, Eblaites, Assyrians
These mountains form the eastern boundary of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
This word refers to the Old Assyrian trade system.
What is the karum?
This empire grew out of a city in Northeastern Mesopotamia.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
This city was the "capitol" of the karum trade.
What is Kanesh?