SECTION 1:
The Civilization of Sumer
SECTION 2:
The First Empires
SECTION 3:
The Assyrian and Persian Empires
SECTION 4:
The Phoenicians
100
Around when did cities start to from in southern Mesopotamia?
3400 B.C
100
Around 2450 B.C Umma and what other city-state met in a major battle?
Lagash
100
Invaders swept into Mesopotamia after Hammurabi's death when?
1750 B.C
100
Egypt controlled parts of Canaan off and on for many years beginning around when?
1500 B.C
200
What is a city-state?
A city state is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
200
Around 2375 B.C a powerful what finally defeated Lagash
A powerful King
200
When did the Assyrian empire stretch north from the Persian gulf across the Fertile Crescent and southwest Egypt?
600 B.C
200
Egyptian rule ended around when?
1150 B.C
300
What did priests do to keep track of their stored goods?
They drew pictographs
300
During when did a man named Sargon become king of a city-state called Kish?
2300 B.C
300
In 604 B.C Nebuchadnezzar II became king of what city?
Babylon
300
Starting when did Phoenicia come under attack by Assyrians?
800 B.C
400
By 3400 B.C Sumerian priests created what?
They created a new writing system.
400
Around 1792 B.C Hammurabi became king of what city-state?
Babylon
400
In 539 B.C Babylon and the rest Mesopotamia fell under the control of what powerful empire?
The Persian empire
400
By 750 B.C who had begun using the Phoenician alphabet.
The Greeks began using the Phoenician alphabet.
500
Some scholars think who ruled the Sumerian city-state during 3000 B.C
Gilgamesh
500
Babylon eventually collapsed Hammurabi's death which was when?
1750 B.C
500
Around 600 B.C a Persian man taught that their was only one supreme what A. King B. God C. Empire
B. God
500
When did Greeks start adding letters to represent vowels?
500 B.C When the Romans adopted the Greek alphabet they changed some letters their result looks much like ours today.
M
e
n
u