Geography
Meso Tech
Babylonia
Assyria/Persia
Religion
100
A region in the Middle East that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
What is fertile crescent?
100
A way to supply water to your crops.
What is irrigation?
100
An independent state that includes the city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
100
Soldiers that fight while riding horses. The Assyrians developed this.
What is a cavalry?
100
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
200
The land between the rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Money used as a medium of exchange.
What is currency?
200
A writing system that used triangular shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
200
Both the Assyrians and the Persians did this to make ruling their large empires easier.
What is divided the empire into provinces?
200
Religious temples where the priests usually lived.
What are Ziggurats?
300
The two rivers that helped to create the fertile crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates river?
300
Sumerians most important invention.
What is the wheel?
300
The name of the first Mesopotamian city.
What is Uruk?
300
A permanent, professional army that is trained.
What is a standing army?
300
The belief that there is one supreme god.
What is Zoroastrianism?
400
Reasons for settling along a river
What is water for drinking and irrigation, fertile soil, travel and trade?
400
Technology that helped improve farming techniques.
What is the plow and seed funnel?
400
He wrote a law code (289 laws) that governed the daily life in Babylonia.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
A payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power.
What is a tribute?
400
The priests kept some form of power because of this.
What is the ability to talk to the gods?
500
The geographical feature that led to the starvation of most of Cambyses army.
What is the desert?
500
A metallurgical advancement that helped the Assyrians during times of war.
What is the development of iron?
500
The idea that all members of society must obey the law.
What is the Rule of Law?
500
An idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture.
What is a cultural trait?
500
Conducted ceremonies that would make the king look like the chosen one.
What is a priest?
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