People
Someone who specializes in a skill, like basket weaving or pottery.
What is an artisan?
Ur, Sumer and Lagash were all these kind of states.
What are city-states
Carved sculptures displaying ancient achievements.
What are steles?
The group responsible for the invention of writing and the wheel.
Who were the Sumerians?
The present day home of Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
Shop keepers unite together to form one of these local markets.
What is a bazaar?
The Sumerians drove wheeled vehicles known as these.
What are chariots?
The group with the first recorded set of laws.
Who are the Babylonians?
The Sumerian writing was done in this substance.
What are clay tablets?
The capital city of the Babylonian empire.
What was Babylon?
The style of writing created by the Sumerians?
What is cunieform?
The reason settlers founded Sumer.
What is fertile soil, a steady food supply and a growing population?
These brought water to crops up to 30 miles away.
What are aqueducts?
The invention of bringing water to crops.
What is irrigation?
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
group of travelers together on a journey.
What is a caravan?
A tool used for writing in ancient Sumer.
What is a stylus?
This type of warfare was perfected by the Assyrians, a constant attack on a city until it falls.
What is seige?
This group invented the battering ram.
Who were the Assyrians?
Two word term for the area of good soil around the Tigris and Euphrates river.
What is the fertile crescent?
This ruler built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his favorite wife.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Nebuchadnezzer built these two things to keep Babylonia safe.
What are moats and walls?
The first ruler of the Akkadian Empire.
Who was Sargon?
The tax system that required men to provide service to the town.
What is the burden?
A device used for raising and lowering the water level in an irrigation system.
What is a levee?