Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages plus Intro to Mesopotamia
The Fertile Crescent.
What is the region around Mesopotamia with fertile soil, ideal for farming and permanent settlements.
The two inventions Sumerians made to improve their stable food supply.
What are irrigation systems and the plow?
The four empires of Mesopotamia.
The city that Hammurabi came from.
What is Babylon?
The Paleolithic Age and how people lived during it.
What are the Old Stone Age and being nomads and hunter-gatherers?
Sumer's type of Government.
What is monarchy?
The definition of "empire."
What is "a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single ruler or government"?
The way Hammurabi's Code was significant concerning writing.
What is the first set of laws to be written down and made known to everyone?
The Neolithic Age and how people lived during it.
What are the New Stone Age and farming and making permanent settlements?
Five significant inventions of Sumer.
What are the wheel, cuneiform, bronze, sailboats, and the lunar calendar?
The first group to establish an empire.
Who were the Akkadians?
The way Hammurabi's Code was significant concerning justice.
What is establishing the idea that laws should apply to everyone?
Meaning of "Mesopotamia" and why it was the site of the earliest civilizations.
What is "land between (2) rivers" and because of the rivers, Mesopotamia had fresh water, a warm climate, and fertile soil?
The type of religion the Sumerians had and the kind of tower they built to worship.
What are polytheism and and ziggurats?
The type of warfare developed by the Assyrians.
What is siege warfare?
The two main rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?
The seven characteristics of civilization.
What are stable food supply, culture/arts, social structure, government, religious system, technology, and written language?
The famous "wonder of the ancient world" of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?