Geography
Key Terms
Key People
Achievements
Invaders
100
A large area of rich, fertile farm land
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Oldest system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
He wrote the first law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The most significant Sumerian invention. We no longer had to drag things, thank goodness!
What is the wheel?
100
This group of people had the largest empire out of all of the invaders.
Who are the Assyrians?
200
Mesopotamia means this
What is the land between the rivers?
200
A group of many lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
200
Hero of the world's oldest epic.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
A wheeled, horse drawn battle cart.
What is a chariot?
200
Assyrians took Mesopotamia by force and named their capital this.
What is Ninevah?
300
The two rivers Mesopotamia is between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
A city and the land surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
300
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
300
An invention that was drug my oxen. It made farming so much easier!
What is the plow?
300
The Assyrians made great and strong armies. They made their weapons out of this. They got the idea from the Hittites.
What is iron?
400
Where the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers empty into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch or king/queen?
400
The only people who were allowed into the temple at the top of the ziggurat.
Who are priests?
400
Thanks to the Sumerian's invention of this, we have 60 minutes in an hour and geometry.
What is the number system based on 60?
400
The Chaldeans invented the first one of these, and the idea of the seven-day week.
What is the sundial?
500
The mesopotamians dug ditches to suppy water to an area of land. This is called
What is irrigation?
500
groups of traveling merchants.
What are caravans?
500
United city-states to create the first empire.
Who is Sargon I?
500
The Sumerian invention of this made it easier to travel on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the sailboat?
500
In 539 B.C., Babylon and Mesopotamia were conquered by this group of invaders and became a part of their empire.
Who are the Persians?
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