Inventions
Empires
Features of a Civilization
Features of a Civilization Examples
Vocabulary
100
Important to farming and is still used today.
What is the wheel?
100
Nebuchadrezzer led this empire.
What is Neo-Babylonians?
100
The first civilization was this city.
What is Sumer?
100
Pictures and letters represent this feature.
What is writing?
100
Fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Pictographs soon turned into this form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
The first use of military strategies was in this empire.
What is the Akkadians?
200
A highly skilled worker in a certain field falls into this feature.
What is Division of Labor or Specialized Jobs.
200
Irrigation systems fall into this feature.
What is public works?
200
Consists of a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
300
A way of supplying water to an area of land to help with farming.
What is irrigation?
300
Babylonians were the first to create this government based on this set of laws.
What is Hammurbi's Code?
300
The belief in or worship of more than one god to explain the world falls into this feature.
What is Religion?
300
Scribes, artisans, cops, firemen.
What is specialized jobs?
300
Long poems that tell stories of heros.
What is an epic?
400
This serves as a temple and the beginnings of an organized religion.
What is a ziggurat?
400
This empire was the first to use a battering ram.
What is the Assyrians?
400
Creates and keeps order to protect citizens.
What is government?
400
pictures and letters represent this feature.
What is writing?
400
A pyramid-shaped temple tower used for religious ceremonies.
What is a ziggurat?
500
This consisted of the center of town and is how civilizations began.
What is a city-state?
500
Sargon led this empire.
What is the Akkadians?
500
These structures show power to visitors of the city.
What is art and architecture?
500
Arches, columns, man made structure.
What is art and architecture?
500
Human made waterways used for navigation or farming.
What is a canal?
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