Sumer
Akkad
Babylonia
Assyria
Mesopotamia
100
This invention made the transport of goods much easier.
What is the wheel?
100
The language of Akkad.
What is Akkadian?
100
Babylonian society was governed by this set of 282 laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
100
The Assyrians were known for being this.
What are cruel, ruthless, and powerful warriors?
100
Mesopotamia means this in Greek?
What is "land between the rivers"?
200
This item was used by the Sumerians to record important information.
What is the tablet?
200
This Semitic language is related to the one spoken in Akkad.
What is Hebrew?
200
This king of Babylonia wanted to gain control of water sources and was known to dam rivers and flood cities.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
This is the practice when war is waged against all members of a society.
What is total war?
200
Mesopotamia refers to the land found between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
These systems where used to transport water from rivers to Sumerian farms.
What are irrigation systems?
300
Akkad is home to history's first one of these (hint: it includes many places all under the control of one powerful leader).
What is an empire?
300
Babylonians used the stars to do this.
What is make predictions and plan events?
300
This king of Assyria was unusual in that he was educated and built libraries.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
300
Mesopotamia is known as the "cradle of _____", a reference to many groups with complex societies that developed in the region.
What is civilization?
400
You could find the Sumerian city-state in this part of the Mesopotamian region.
What is Southern Mesopotamia?
400
This king can be considered one of history's first emperors.
Who is Sargon the Great?
400
The Babylonians were some of the earliest people to think of this math concept.
What is place value?
400
This is the term used to describe the process of conquering many groups of people.
What is conquest?
400
The same land that makes up Mesopotamia, make up parts of this modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
500
This is the name of one of the earliest forms of writing, invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
500
The city-state of Akkad could be found in this part of Mesopotamia.
What is Northern Mesopotamia?
500
This Babylonian king completed many large building projects in an attempt to restore Babylonia to its former glory.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
500
The Assyrian empire occupied much of the same territory as this Mesopotamian empire.
What is Babylonia?
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