A wall of Earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What is Mesopotamia
100
Define city- state
Small, independent countries. Each had their own ruler and own farmland to provide food.
100
The empire that conquered Sumer
What is Akkadian Empire
100
Define nomad
What is Many Stone Age people. People who had no single, or settled home. They hunted and gathered to find their food.
100
Describe Gilgamesh
What is King of Sumer, "Epic of Gilgamesh," part god- part man, hero
200
A wall of Earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What is levee
200
Building & maintaining complex irrigation systems, uncontrollable water supply, and food shortages are 3 out of the 4 challenges Sumerians faced- what is the 4th?
Attacks from neighboring communities
200
Empire that is described as "warlike"
What is Assyrian Empire
200
Define Paleolithic Age
What is Old Stone Age. Time when people had no permanent home and they hunted & gathered for food
200
List the 4 Empires of Mesopotamia in the order in which they occurred
Akkadia, Babylonia, Assyria, Neo- Babylonia
300
Is this the definition for empire or capital: A city that is the center of government
Capital
300
2 achievements left by the ancient Sumerians
What is wheel, writing, cuneiform, pictographs, 1st civilization, ziggurat, arch, improvements in farming
300
Math, the sundial, astronomy, calendar days, and days in a year are achievements left by which empire?
Neo- Babylonian Empire
300
What was the greatest invention of all time?
What is Farming
300
2 reasons why we remember Hammurabi's code of laws? (why was it different than any other laws before?)
1st code, 1st written law, did not matter who you were you had to face a punishment for your crime, unusually fair
400
Define Pictograph
What is A symbol that stands for an object
400
Why was the creation of a writing system important to the Sumerians and future civilizations?
Communication, trade, record- history, events, stories, taxes, inventory, pass down information, education, develop language
400
2 Achievements left by the Babylonian Empire
Code of laws, trade, women and slave rights, postal service, roads, agriculture improvements
400
2 differences between the Paleolithic Age & the Neolithic Age
What is food supply, trade, technology, shelter, population, jobs, farming, domestication
400
Which Mesopotamian Empire lasted from 900 BCE to 612 BCE?
Assyrian Empire
500
Define Chariot
What is A two- wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse
500
7 Characteristics of a Civilization
What is technology, government, stable food supply, different jobs, social levels, religious system
500
When did the Babylonia Empire begin and end?
1894 BCE to 1595 BCE
500
6 Changes in Daily Life that Affected the Neolithic Age