The Civilization
of Sumer
The First Empires
The Assyrian and Persian Empires
The Phoenicians
Chapter 3 Vocabulary
100
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The Akkadian king that united Mesopotamia under his rule, creating the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
100
The Assyrian Empire stretched north from this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
100
Present-day Lebanon was the site of this civilization.
What is the Phoenician civilization?
100
A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent shape curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
The world's first civilization.
What is Sumer?
200
The approximate number of laws included in Hammurabi's Code.
What is 300?
200
The core of Persia's army where these elite soldiers known by this name.
Who are the Immortals?
200
Raw materials, including gold, silver, tin, copper, iron, ivory, and precious stones.
What are exports?
200
An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
What is an ally?
300
Two farming technologies used by Sumerians Hint: Watering and planting
What are irrigation and seed funnel?
300
Although some of the punishments of the Hammurabi's Code sounded cruel by modern standards, they did encourage this.
What is social order?
300
Phoenician sailors developed thorough knowledge in these two areas.
What are wind patterns and ocean currents?
300
Soldiers who fight while riding horses
What are cavalry?
400
According Sumerians, these were the only people that could communicate with their gods.
Who were the priests?
400
Hammurabi's Code established and enforced rule of law, which is a key idea of these.
What are modern democratic principles?
400
One of Phoenicia's most wealthiest city-states.
What is Carthage?
400
The art of steering a ship from place to place.
What is navigation?
500
Sumerian achievement produced by mixing copper and tin.
What is bronze?
500
Phoenician way of writing
What is the alphabet?
500
Small set of letters or symbols
What is alphabet?
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n
u