Geography
The names of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Sumerian city-states used these to win disputes over farmland in Sumer.
What are armies?
This common phrase is the idea behind Hammurabi's code.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
Phoenician traders were the first to develop this.
What is an alphabet?
Darius I organized the empire by dividing it into these.
What are provinces / satraps?
Improved farming techniques and surplus food led to this Mesopotamian practice.
What is the division of labor?
The name of the most legendary Sumerian King.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Hittites were responsible for this iron invention used in battle.
What are chariots?
The Phoenicians became powerful by creating this type of society?
Zoroastrianism is the name for this element of Persian culture?
What is religion?
This Mesopotamian invention allowed people to supply water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
A religion with many gods.
What is Polytheism?
Assyrians built these at Nineveh.
What are libraries?
Phonecia's location on the Meditteranean Sea made them experts at this.
What is sailing?
The Persians met their match when they went on the offensive against this civilization.
Who are the Greeks?
The shape based nickname of the Mesopotamia region.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The pyramid shaped temples built during the Sumerian Empire.
What are ziggurats?
Hammurabi was the leader of this empire, which is also the location of the hanging gardens.
What is Babylon?
Phoenician traders grew wealthy by making this out of shellfish.
What is purple dye?
This king's victory marked the beginning of the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus?
The name of the rich soil that made Mesopotamia a great place to grow crops.
What is silt?
The name of the first system of writing, developed by the Sumerians.
Hammurabi's code is the first time people wrote these down.
What are laws?
Phoenicians used these to help them navigate their ships.
What are stars/constellations?
Cyrus allowed the people he conquered to keep their own.
What are customs?