Terms
Soldiers who fought while riding horse
What is cavalry?
A state containing several countries or territories
What is an empire?
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
Currency created by Darius
What are gold coins?
Two types of writing discussed in this chapter
What are cunieform and alphabet?
A good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
What is an import?
A permanent army of professional soldiers
What is a standing army?
Sargon
Who created Mesopotamia's first empire?
Used by the Phoenicians to guide their voyages
What is the North Star?
Process of watering plants in the Hanging Gardens
What are buckets and pulleys? What is an irrigation system?
The art of steering a ship from place to place
What is navigation?
A payment made to show loyalty to a stronger person
What is a tribute?
An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
What is an ally?
Fertile land that attracted Phoenician farmers
What are colonies?
Why did the Phoenician alphabet make writing easier than cuneiform?
It only had 22 symbols to use for communication versus hundreds of symbols
An area ruled by a distant country
What is a colony?
A good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s borders
What is an export?
The Akkadians' and Sumerians' use of cuneiform is an example of a shared _______________
What is a cultural trait?
New technology used by Assyrians
What is iron or ironwork?
What was the Hanging Gardens and what does it tell us about the city of Babylon?
It was a beautiful terraced gardens with an irrigation system. It tells us the city was wealthy, appreciated beauty and had intelligent/creative citizens.
A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent shaped-curve
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A wide, flat plain in present-day Iraq; located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
The two rivers that Mesopotamia refers to
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is Carthage?
Why did the Phoenicians trade with other cultures?
They didn't have many resources.