Vocabulary
Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia
Characteristics of a civilization
Hammurabi's code and the epic of Gilgamesh
Inventions
100

 A type of writing that uses wedge type characters.

What is cuneiform?

100

These rivers went through sumer and supplied it with water.

What are the Tigris and Euprates rivers?

100

What a civilization eats.

What is a stable food supply?

100

The first laws.

What is Hammurabi's code?

100

This invention was used in farms.

What is a plow?

200

                                                                                An anceint mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top.



What is a Ziggurat?

200

This first was between Sumer and Elam?

What is the first war?

200

What people believe.

What is Religion?

200

This killed Enkidu.

What is sickness?

200

A round object that rolls.

What is a wheel?

300

A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.

What is a siege?

300

The empire had the first permanent army?

What is Assyria?

300
Different levels from slaves at the worst level to Kings at the highest level.

What is social class?

300

His laws covered issues on agriculture, Irrigation, and family life.

Who is Hammurabi?

300

A wedge type writing.

What is cuneiform?

400

The belief that there are many gods.

What is Polytheism.

400

This empire had the first double and triple walls around it.

What is Babylonia.

400

The leaders of a civilization.

What is government?

400

Hammurabi's code was made here.

What is Babylonia?

400

This invention allowed people to add numbers.

What is math?

500

Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.

What is a tribute?

500

A big city.

What is a metropolis

500

The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes

What is technology?

500

This person loved Gilgamesh.

who is Ishtar?

500

This invention carried soldiers to the battle field.

what is a battle wagon?