Geography
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Irrigation
The worship of many gods
Polytheism
World's first system of writing
Cuneiform
Purple
Unit of soldiers who ride horses
Cavalry
Two rivers in Mesopotamia
The Tigris and Euphrates River
Set of laws that dealt with almost every part of Babylonian life
Hammurabi's Code
First people to build _______ vehicles, including carts and wagons
Wheeled
Most important achievement (English is based on it)
Alphabet
Name of the two rulers of Persia
Cyrus the Great/Darius I
Sea west of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean Sea
Human-made waterways
Canals
Below kings and queens in the social hierarchy order
Priests
Way to navigate the seas
Stars/Polaris/North Star
Roads
Name of desert that takes up a large amount of southern Mesopotamia
Arabian Desert
A city and all of the countryside around it
Saw the start of the ______ Age, when humans begin making tools out of metals rather than stone
Bronze
Poor farmland made Phoenician leaders look toward the ____
Sea/water
Capital of the empire
Persepolis
Mountain range west of the Caspian Sea
Caucasus Mountains
An arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task or job
Division of labor
Rolled over clay, designs would leave behind their imprint
Cylinder seals
Famous colony along their trade routes
Carthage
Governors called ______ ruled the provinces
Satraps