Mesopotamia
The Sumerians
The Akkadians
Hammurabi
The Phoenicians and Hebrews
100
Mesopotamia means "________________________"
What is "the land between the rivers"
100
A city surrounded by smaller villages
What is City-state
100
The most important idea that Sargon I borrowed from the Sumerians was their way of __________________.
What is writing
100
We call Hammurabi's reign the __________________ ___________ of Babylon.
What is Golden Age
100
The Phoenicians lived in ________________.
What is Canaan.
200
Mesopotamia is also called the _________ _____________.
What is Fertile Crescent
200
The Sumerians built ______________, banks of earth that keep out water.
What is dikes
200
The first ruler to unite the city-states of Mesopotamia was ____________________.
What is Sargon I
200
Hammurabi ruled for almost _____________ years.
What is 40
200
The Phoenicians became famous as _____________.
What is sailors
300
The Fertile Crescent is important to the whole world today because of its _________________.
What is oil
300
Sumerians lived ____________________ than prehistoric humans had.
What is better
300
Around 1800 B.C. a new city-state called ____________________ came to power.
What is Babylon.
300
Hammurabi expected everyone in his kingdom to ____________ his code.
What is obey
300
The Phoenicians were the first people to use the ____________ to help them navigate.
What is North Star
400
Mesopotamia is shaped like a ______________, or quarter moon.
What is crescent.
400
In Sumer, children had to obey. If they disobeyed, their parents could sell them into ___________________.
What is slavery
400
The great leader of Babylon was _______________.
What is Hammurabi
400
Archaeologists found Hammurabi's law on a stone in what country in 1902?
What is Iran
400
The holy book of the Hebrew people is called the __________________.
What is Bible.
500
Mesopotamia is _________________ because it provides plentiful crops.
What is fertile
500
The main building in each Sumerian city was its ___________________.
What is temple.
500
Hammurabi collected laws from many groups of people and put them into a _____________________.
What is code
500
Hammurabi died in ____________ B.C.
What is 1750
500
The Hebrews differed from other ancient people because they believed in one ___________________.
What is god.
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