These invaders from Asia Minor were able to concur Mesopotamia because they were able to make iron weapons and moved around quickly in chariots.
Who are the Hittites.
100
Rulers were known to live in this type of home.
What is a two story home?
100
The legendary king, Gilgamesh, had one of these written about him (a Sumerian creation).
What is an epic?
100
This vocabulary term is used to refer to ONE ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
200
Northern Mesopotamia was a plateau surrounded by mountains, Southern Mesopotamia was mainly a _______?
What is a flat plain.
200
This group of invaders made Nineveh their capital city.
Who are the Assyrians?
200
These social classes are missing after the Kings and the Farmers in this list of Sumerian Social Hierarcy.
1. Kings
2. _________
3. Craftspeople, merchants, traders
4. Farmers
5. _________
Who are Priests and Slaves?
200
This is certainly the most famous example of Sumerian architecture that they built. There was one in every city-state!
What is a ziggurat?
200
The first cities in Mesopotamia developed sometime between these years.
What are 3000-4000BC?
300
These were two problems that farmers in Mesopotamia faced every year because of mother nature.
What are floods and droughts?
300
These two 'leaders' built and improved Babylon (at different times).
Who are Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar
300
This thing was a 'big deal' because it was the 1st time people knew what the rules & punishments were.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
Sumerian children went to school to become 'this' so they could rise up in social class.
What is a scribe?
300
City-states fought each other early on because they wanted to do this.
What is every city state wanted to have enough farmland to grow food.
400
This is what they dug when there was too much rain water that flooded the land in Sumer.
What are canals?
400
The Phoenicians were on the Eastern boarder of this 'region'.
What is the Mediterranean region?
400
The Mandate of ____________ is what Sumerian's believed in when trying to figure out WHO should be there King and who shouldn't be.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
400
This Sumerian creation REALLY helped farmers speed up planting seeds.
What is a plow?
400
These natural structures forced the Phoenicians to turn to the sea for trade.
What are mountains?
500
Phoenicia had a surplus of this natural resource.
What are cedar trees?
500
This leader admired the Sumerian culture and returned to building temples and using cuneiform.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
This man was the world's first emperor!
Who is Sargon?
500
This is the big idea that Sumerians gave to the world of Mathematics.
What is using the number 60 as a measure for time?