Geography
This was the name of the first area within the Fertile Crescent where people started to settle.
What is Sumer
The first civilizations in Mesopotamia eventually formed these settlements.
What are city-states
This was created by advances in irrigation and farming; it is the term for having more of something than you need.
What is a surplus
The king of Akkadia, he was the world's first emperor.
Who was Sargon
This was one of the first civilizations to use ironwork to create stronger weapons than those of their foes.
Who were the Hittites
The name Mesopotamia is Greek, and means this.
What is the land between rivers
What is a river valley
This was the Sumerian's form of written communication; it replaced pictographs.
What is cuneiform
This Babylonian king was responsible for writing the world's first set of written laws.
Who was Hammurabi
The earliest forms of writing didn't use pencils, pens, or paper; instead, they used these.
What are clay tablets and styluses
These are the two main rivers in the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates
This civilization was responsible for creating the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians
Using their new form of writing, Sumerians wrote these, long poems that told stories of heroes.
What are epics
This Chaldean ruler was known for building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar
This is the term for land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
What is an empire?
This is the main reason the soil of the Fertile Crescent was so fertile.
What is flooding that regularly deposited silt
This is the term for the specialization of jobs that allowed civilizations to advance and grow.
What is a division of labor
The Sumerians created a math system that we still use for some things today; it was based on this number.
What is 60
The king of this group from Asia Minor was killed soon after taking power of Mesopotamia, which allowed the Kassites to take over.
Who were the Hittites
This is the approximate time people first started to settle in the Fertile Crescent.
What is 12,000 BCE
This is the area north of Mesopotamia (it is now called Turkey).
What is Asia Minor
This civilization took control of Mesopotamia after the king of the Hittites was assassinated; they ruled for more than 400 years.
Who were the Kassites
What is the plow
The leaders of Phoenicia didn't have access to land routes by which to trade their cedar, so they used fleets of ships to trade throughout this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea
This is the name for early Sumerian temples built for worshipping their dieities.
What is a ziggurat