Geography of the Fertile Crescent
What two rivers made up the Fertile Crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates
What jobs did men have in Sumer?
Lawmakers, priests, farmers, laborer
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
List of laws and punishments in Babylonia
By what sea is Phoenicia located by?
Mediterranean Sea
Who won the Persian Wars?
The Greeks
Why was irrigation important?
Water crops, differentiate jobs
What advancements did the Sumerians create? List two
Cuneiform, cylinder seals, sewers, wheel, make-up, glass jewelry, pottery wheel
Who were the Chaldeans?
charted the positions of the stars to help navigate, Polaris/North Star was used
What did the Phoenicians use the stars for?
Navigate the seas
What was the royal road?
Trade road that was known for being safe and used to deliver royal messages
What was the civilization that first formed in the Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamia
What jobs did women have in Sumer?
Caregiver, priestess, writer
Who were the Assyrians?
established a library containing legal, medical, religious and literary texts
What big thing did the Phoenicians invent?
The alphabet
What was Zoroastrianism about
good and evil forces
What was the climate of the region?
dry, desert with the exception of the Fertile Crescent
What did the Gods do?
Controlled all aspects of life
What did the Hittites do?
mastered ironworking to make the strongest weapons of the time
What resources did the Phoenicians have?
Cedar timber, purple cloth, ivory carvings, glass objects, silverwork
Why did Darius and Xerxes want to conquer Greece?
to punish Greek city-states for supporting other Greeks who rebelled against the Persian Empire
Put these in the order in which they happened
Villages formed; Civilization developed; Farm settlements formed in Mesopotamia; Hunter-gatherer groups settled in Mesopotamia; People learned to plant crops to grow their own food
Hunter-gatherer groups settled in Mesopotamia.
People learned to plant crops to grow their own food.
Farm settlements formed in Mesopotamia.
Villages formed.
Civilization developed.
Put the social hierarchy in order
Slaves; kings and queens; farmers and laborers; priests and priestesses; craftspeople, merchants, traders
kings and queens
priests and priestesses
craftspeople, merchants, traders
farmers and laborers
slaves
Put the following in order of when they were in power with the year?
Assyrians; Babylonians; Chaldeans; Hittites; Kassites
Babylonians
Hittites
Kassites
Assyrians
Chaldeans
What did they trade for?
ivory, gold, copper, tin, iron
What accomplishment did Darius I have?
built Persepolis
standardized Persian currency
divided the empire into 20 provinces and appointed satraps
constructed roads across the empire, including the Royal Road