Lesson 1
This is why Mesopotamians created irrigation systems.
What is because of floods and droughts?
A city-center surrounded by rural countryside
What is a city-state?
This is the type of metal the Hittites were skilled at using.
What is iron?
This was the reason Phoenicians had to trade so much
What is they had bad land for farming?
This is the name of the king who started the Persian Empire
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Soil that is good for farming
What is silt?
The religion/beliefs the Mesopotamians followed.
What is polytheism?
These are the 282 of the first written laws
What is Hammurabi's code?
This is the biggest creation that we got from the Phoenicians
What is the alphabet?
This is the ultimate winner of the Persian-Greek war
What is the Greeks?
These are the names of the two major rivers in the Fertile Crescent
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The division of social classes is called
What is social hierarchy?
These are things Hammurabi improved when he was king
What is irrigation, building, and tax collection?
This is why Phoenicia was in a good location
What is protection from the mountains and access to the Mediterranean Sea for trade
This is the name of the Persian Army soldiers
Who are the Immortals?
What is wheat, barley, meat, fish, dates
City-states were important because of this.
What is they were centers for trading?
This is why the Hittites had a strong military
What is the use of chariots?
These are some items traded by the Phoenicians
What is timber (wood), silver, ivory, slaves, glass art, purple dye, religions
This is why the Persians invaded Greece
What is to punish other city-states for helping the Greeks who rebelled?
Because of a surplus of food, new jobs were created. This is called...
What is division of labor?
Sumerians invented this as the world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform
This is the order of empires in Mesopotamia
What is Babylon, Hittites, Kassites, Assyrians, and Chaldeans?
This was used to help increase Phoenician skills with sailing
What is Polaris/The North Star?
This is how the Battle of Marathon got its name
What is someone ran 26.2 miles to let the Greek's know they won?