Geography & Religion
Political & Social
Big Names
Achievements
Empires
100
A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland.
What is Fertile Crescent?
100
The division of society by rank or class. Kings, Priests, Skilled craftspeople, Merchants and Traders, Large working class of Farmers and Laborers, and Slaves.
What is Social Hierarchy?
100
Long stories that tell of heroes.
What is an Epic?
100
Worlds first system of writing; it represents syllables.
What is cuneiform?
100
Hittites, Kassites, Assyrians, Chaldeans
Who were the rulers of Mesopotamia?
200
Rivers of the Mesopotamia region; most important physical features of the region.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Land with different territories and people under single rule.
What is an empire?
200
Akkadian ruler who had the first permanent army.
Who is Sargon?
200
To supply (dry land) with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams; water artificially.
What is irrigation?
200
Were first to master ironworking so they made the strongest weapons of all times; taken over by Kassites after their king was assassinated.
Who were the Hittites?
300
"land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Mesopotamia created basic political units called city-states.
What is are City-States?
300
A Babylonian King who created a set 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of everyday life.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Wheel, plow, sewers, math and science, medicines, and writing.
What are accomplishments?
300
Attacked the Assyrian Empire when they were weak and destroyed their empire.
Who were the Chaldeans?
400
Mesopotamia is on this continent.
What is Asia?
400
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a Monarch?
400
Rebuilt the city of Babylon into a beautiful city that had the famous hanging gardens..
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
400
A wheeled horse drawn cart.
What is a chariot?
400
Had a strong army that used chariots and iron weapons.
Who were the Assyrians?
500
Worship of many gods.
What is Polytheism?
500
The process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization.
What are Civilizations?
500
Writers, could move up in Social Class.
What are scribes?
500
A pyramid shaped temple; rose above each city
What is a Zigguart?
500
Prized cedar trees for timber, accessed the seas for trade, sailed ships around the Mesopotamia seas, founded many new colonies along the trade route, became wealthy, recorded their activity, created an easier writing system.
Who were the Phoenicians?
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