Mesopotamia is located between the _________ and __________ Rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates.
100
The ___________ created an alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians
100
Who created the first kind of justice system with laws written down?
Who was King Hammurabi
200
The belief in MANY gods
What is polytheism
200
The belief in ONE god.
What is monotheism.
200
Why was the Fertile Crescent a good place for civilization to begin?
What is it had rich (fertile) soil for farming.
200
____________ were great warriors and built a battering ram on wheels.
Who were the Assyrians
200
Hammurabi's code was based on the idea of an "______________."
What is an eye for an eye
300
A type of writing with wedges and lines.
What is cuneiform
300
Symbols that represent the sounds of a language.
What is an alphabet
300
Each year, this event happened which made the Fertile crescent good for farming.
What is the annual flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates.
300
The _____________ were great astronomers and measured the length of a year.
Who were the Chaldeans
300
Give one example of how the Ten Commandments and Hammurabi's Code are similar.
What is they are both written documents; given to them from the gods; both a code of law...
400
A community with its own separate government and laws.
What is a city-state
400
A market in a city such as ancient Babylon.
What is a bazaar
400
The name of the region that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Fertile Crescent
400
The _____________ no longer believed in polytheism; they practiced monotheism.
Who were the Israelites/Jews
400
How are the Ten Commandments and Hammurabi's Code different?
What is the Ten Commandments have only 10 laws, and Hammurabi's code has 282; the Israelites believed in the Ten Commandments and the Babylonians believed in Hammurabi's Code...
500
A scattering of a group of people to different parts of the world.
What is diaspora
500
Many territories and people controlled by one government.
What is an empire
500
The continent Mesopotamia was located on.
What is western Asia
500
In the city-state of __________, writing was originally developed.
What is Sumer
500
Why were Hammurabi's rules an important step in the development of civilization?