Sumerian Civilization
Inventions & Ideas
Geography
Mesopotamian Empires
Religion & Rulers
100
a region that had its own government and was not part of any larger governing state
What is a city-state?
100
this invention was used by ancient people to mark property and to sign documents
What are cylinder seals?
100
the area of the world where Mesopotamia is located
What is Southwest Asia (or the Middle East...or Iraq)?
100
a group of many different lands under one ruler
What is an empire?
100
the belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
200
Sumer's largest social class
What is the middle class?
200
the form of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped symbols
What is cuneiform?
200
these two features gave Mesopotamia its name
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
One reason the Assyrians were considered such a strong army was due their use of ________________ weapons.
What is iron?
200
a large, pyramid-shaped temple
What is a ziggurat?
300
a person who wrote documents to record business dealings and other important events
What is a scribe?
300
the oldest known story in the world
What is Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
rich soil left behind by floods
What is silt?
300
the capital of the Assyrian empire
What is Ninevah?
300
the Babylonian king that conquered the Amorites and created a famous law code
Who is King Hammurabi?
400
a method of watering crops that led to farmers growing surpluses of food
What is irrigation?
400
This Sumerian invention allowed them to build the first carts and be the first to use chariots.
What is the wheel?
400
the body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates flow into
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
this group of people took over the Assyrian Empire and is sometimes referred to as the New Babylonian Empire
Who are the Chaldeans?
400
the Akkadian ruler that created the world's first empire
Who is Sargon?
500
people that specialized in weaving cloth and making pottery, tools, and weapons
Who are artisans?
500
the Sumerians used this invention to help them with farming
What is the plow?
500
a curving strip of good farmland that extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
Sargon created the world's first empire by uniting these two regions
What are Akkad and Sumer?
500
the king of the Chaldeans who ordered the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
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