Geography of the Fertile Crescent
These two rivers were very important to Mesopotamia's development as a civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
The metal used by the Hittites to craft their weapons and tools.
What is iron?
The color the Phoenicians were known to make from shellfish and used to dye their clothing.
What is purple?
The founder of the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Mesopotamia lies between Asia Minor and the Persian Gulf. Mesopotamia is part of this larger area that is a large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland and extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the approximate date in which the Sumerians created the world’s first advanced society, also known as civilization.
What is approximately 3000 B.C.E?
The earliest known written collection of laws, comprising 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
What is Hammurabi’s code?
The body of water where most Phoenician city-states were located.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Persian emperor who called himself the King of Kings.
Who is Darius I?
Farmers in Mesopotamia used this to supply water to areas of land in both rainy and dry seasons that helped them create a surplus of food.
What is irrigation?
The world’s first system of writing developed by the Sumerians?
What is cuneiform?
The leader who took over Sumer and created the first empire called Akkad.
Who was Sargon the Great?
On the northern coast of Africa, this colony was the most famous and powerful Phoenician colony on the Mediterranean.
What is Carthage?
This monotheistic religion arose under the reign of Darius I and taught that the forces of good and evil were fighting for control of the universe.
What is Zoroastrianism?
An arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks or jobs.
What is a division of labor?
This group of people were just below kings in Sumer’s social hierarchy.
Who are priests and/or priestesses?
He was the most famous Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city and whose palace was famous for the Hanging Gardens.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
The other name given to the North Star that was used by the Phoenicians to navigate the Mediterranean Sea and make sure they were heading in the right direction.
What is Polaris?
Two factors that allowed the outnumbered Greeks to defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
What are superior weapons and armor?
The Greek translation of the word Mesopotamia.
What is “between the rivers”?
A special art form that was a stone engraved with designs for rolling over wet clay to decorate objects or to “sign” documents.
What was the cylinder seal?
The Assyrian capital that was home to one of the world’s first libraries?
What is Nineveh?
The Phoenicians most important achievement.
What is the alphabet?
The famous individual who is responsible for ending the Persian Empire?
Who is Alexander the Great?