Written Language
People
Religion
Places
Terms to know
100
Symbols that represent the sound of a language.
What is alphabet?
100
A relious leader who interprets the will of God.
Who is a prophet?
100
Polytheism.
What is the worship of many gods or goddesses?
100
Its name means "between the rivers".
Where is Mesopotamia?
100
to force someone to live in another country.
What is exile?
200
The first set of written laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
A Babyloinian king that created the Babylonian empire by uniting the cities of Sumer.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Myths.
What are stories about gods?
200
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
Traders traveling together.
What is a caravan?
300
A type of writing with wedges and lines; the first writing of the Fertile Crescent.
What is cuneiform?
300
A professional writer.
Who is a scribe?
300
Monotheism.
What is the worship of one god?
300
This is the term for a city that acts like a state.
What are city-states?
300
A binding agreement.
What is a covenant?
400
An organized list of laws.
What is a code?
400
Invented the battering ram.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
Ziggurat.
What is a Sumerian temple?
400
A market in a city such as Babylon.
What is a bazaar?
400
Not enough food for everyone.
What is a famine?
500
Sumer.
What is the city where the first form of writing developed?
500
The greatest king of Babylon.
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar?
500
Found in the center of Jerusalem.
What is the Temple built by Solomon?
500
Many territories and people controlled by one government.
What is an empire?
500
Important contributions of the ancient civilizations.
What are writing, alphabet, schools, laws and trade?
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