geography
Characteristics of civilization
Vocabulary
babylonia
sumer
100

an area of land in between two rivers

What is mesopatamia?

100

A characteristic that is used to direct peoples behavior

What is Government?

100

To train a wild animal to be useful to humans

What is domestication?

100

First known set of laws

What is Hammurabi's code?

100

The year when the first recorded war happened

When was 2700 B.C.?

200

A crescent of fertile land

What is the Fertile crescent?

200

The charcteristic involving cuneiform

What is writing?

200

The business of farming growing crops and raising animals.

what is agricalture?

200

Aakkadian

 What is Babylonians language?

200

The war between Sumer and Elam

what was the first recorded war?

300

The mountain ranges to the right of the Fertile Crescent

What are the Zagros Mountains?

300

A complex organization

What is social structure?

300

A large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.

what is empire?

300

A tall carved object

what is a stele?

300

What Sumer used to carry soldiers to war

What is a wagon?

400

The sea to the left of the fertile cresent

what is the medeteranian sea?

400

The characteristic involving painting, architecture, and music.

What is art?

400

The two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

What are tigers and Euphrates Rivers?

400

A 12 mile by 12 mile metropolis

What is Babylon

400

Soldiers captured in war

What where slaves?

500

what is the peninsula beneath the fertile cresen't

what is the arabian peninsula?

500

the reason you can have a complex society

what is a stable food supply?

500

The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.

what is technology?

500

A metropolis with 10 feet thick walls

What is Babylon

500

the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia

what is sumer?

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