Civilizations
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The Hebrews
100
This war-like civilization was the first to create a library.
Who are the Assyrians?
100
Sumer used this base in its mathematical calculations instead of base 10, which is commonly used today.
What is base 6?
100
The Sumerians created this type of wedge shaped writing on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
100
This king created his own code of laws and had them carved into stone pillars.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The Hebrews, later known as Jews, created the first monotheistic religion, which is now known as this.
What is Judaism?
200
This civilization, which created city-state governments, is the oldest known.
What is Sumer?
200
These step pyramids were built by the Sumerians as temples.
What are the ziggurats?
200
These items were developed in the Persian Empire for better fairness in trading.
What are weights and measures?
200
He was the strongest ruler of Akkad who conquered Sumer creating the first empire and ruled for more than 50 years.
Who is Sargon the First?
200
The Hebrews settled in this area later known as Israel.
What is Palestine?
300
The government was divided into provinces and developed a bureaucracy in this empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
300
This Wonder of the Ancient World was built by King Nebuchadnezzar.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
300
The Lydians were the first to make this.
What is coin money?
300
This king of Persia and his son, Xerxes, went to war with Greece.
Who is Darius?
300
This man is believed to be the Hebrews' patriarch.
Who is Abraham?
400
These people from Asia Minor were the first to smelt iron for weapons and tools.
Who are the Hittites?
400
King Hammurabi split his code of laws into two different kinds of laws to deal with private rights and acts against society.
What are civil laws and criminal laws?
400
This piece of literature is the oldest discovered of its kind and includes the flood story.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
400
This person created one of the first monotheistic religions, which he named after himself.
Who is Zoroaster?
400
The Hebrews, a nomadic tribe, were searching for this.
What is the promised land?
500
Mesopotamia, also known as the Fertile Crescent, is located between these two rivers in Southwest Asia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
500
Mesopotamia means this.
What is between two rivers?
500
The sea-going traders known as the Phoenicians are remembered for creating these three things.
What are glass, Tyrian purple, and the first alphabet.
500
This king of Chaldeans rebuilt the Babylon empire and enslaved the Hebrews.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
The Hebrews' exile and division was known as this.
What is diaspora?
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