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A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top used to worship a city-state's chief god.
What is a ziggurat?
Having extra or additional; farmers would have a _____ of crops for later use.
What is a surplus?
Sargon ruled Akkad and conquered Sumerian city-states, creating the world's first _______.
What is an empire?
Forced payments to rulers to show submission
What is a tribute?
Belief in multiple gods
What is polytheism?
The first Fertile Crescent Empire
What is the Akkadian Empire?
The second empire in the Fertile Crescent
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Important contribution to civilization by the Phoenicians.
What is the alphabet?
The third empire of the Fertile Crescent
What is the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
The fourth empire of the Fertile Crescent
What is the Phoenician Empire?
A geographic feature of Mesopotamia that promoted the growth of civilization by providing water and fertile soil.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
By conquering weakened city-states of Sumer, he was able to build the first empire in Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon?
The empire that stretched furthest into the Asia Minor
What is the Assyrian Empire?
The order of developments in Mesopotamian Civilization
What is irrigation, food surplus, and specialization?
A physical feature included in the Assyrian Empire and not the Neo-Babylonian Empire
What is the Nile River?
Spring floods from the Tigris and Euphrates deposited silt in Mesopotamia, making the land
What is fertile?
Mesopotamian society was a patriarchy dominated by
What are men?
The 60-second minute, 60-minute hour, and 360-degree circle that we use today come from a place-value system of numbers created by the ________.
What are the Sumerians?
As civilizations grew, some developed into ___________ as rulers took land by force from other kingdoms.
What are empires?
A standard system of weights and measures was introduced by __________ rulers.
Who are the Akkadians?