Geography
The Rise of Sumer
Sumerian Achievements
Later People of Fertile Crescent
Miscellaneous
100
This name means "between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
100
A political unit that consists of a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
100
The world's first writing system.
What is Cuneiform?
100
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
City-states built these to protect themselves from rivals.
What are walls?
200
A large arc of fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
The first ruler to establish a permanent army and create teh worlds first empire.
Who is Sargon?
200
A writer who was hired to keep track of items people traded.
What is a scribe?
200
This was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
200
A land with different territories and peopls under a single ruler.
What is an empire?
300
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that make land ideal for farming.
What is silt?
300
Uruk king who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
A pyramid shaped temple that rose above each city.
What is a ziggurat?
300
A wheeled horse drawn cart used in battle.
What is a chariot?
400
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
400
This played a role in nearly every aspect of Sumerian public and private life.
What is religion?
400
Perhaps Sumerians' most important technical advance.
What is the wheel?
400
The most famous Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon and built a grand palace featuring the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
400
Pulled by oxen and broke through the hard clay soil to prepare for planting.
What is a plow?
500
An arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is division of labor?
500
The division of society by rank or class.
What is a social hierarchy?
500
Sumerian math system based on this number.
What is sixty?
500
The city of Phoenicia was located at this end of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Eastern end?
500
This modern country sits on the same location as the Babylonian Empire.
What is Iraq?
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