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100
This empire reached its height in 1750 B.C. under Hammurabi and was destroyed in 1600 B.C.
What is Babylon?
100
This is an area of many territories and peoples controlled by one government.
What is an empire?
100
He created the Babylonian Empire by uniting the cities of Sumer, conquering lands to Asia Minor, building roads, and encouraging trade.
Who is King Hammurabi?
100
These are markets in Babylon where shoppers could buy cotton from India and spices from Egypt.
What are bazaars?
100
This is a belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
This group conquered Sumer.
Who are the Akkadia?
200
This is the region in the Middle East that curves like a quarter-moon shape and is known for rich fertile land.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
He created the first set of written laws (a code) that included information concerning trade, labor, property, family, and medicine.
Who was King Hammurabi?
200
This is a group of wedges and lines that could be used to represent different languages.
What is cuneiform?
200
There are writers/record keepers.
Who are scribes?
300
This was the first civilization of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumeria?
300
These are the two rivers that were the cradle of civilization and flooded yearly leaving topsoil for planting.
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
300
He united the Sumerian city-states and improved government and military after the fall of Sumer.
Who is Sargon II?
300
Huge stone temple of the god or goddess located in the center of a particular city.
What is a ziggurat?
300
This city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire and was a great city of learning which included a library.
What was Nineveh?
400
This group caused the Babylonia Empire to rise again.
Who are the Chaldean?
400
A city that is also a politically independent state with its own god or goddess, government, and eventually own king.
What is a city-state?
400
He rebuilt the city of Babylon including the Hanging Gardens.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar II?
400
This contains 22 symbols for each consonant sound.
What is the Phoenician Alphabet?
400
This group collected snails to create purple dye for cloth making and created a huge trading empire.
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
This empire was named after the city of Assur. They believed the best defense was to attack.
What is Assyria?
500
This is Greek for "between the rivers" and was the place of the first civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
He led the Persians to attack New Babylon and caused New Babylon to fall in 539 B.C.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
500
These are groups of travelers who stopped in Babylon for trading purposes.
What are caravans?
500
This is list of organized laws.
What is a code?
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