Geography of the Fertile Crescent
Rise of Sumer
Later Peoples of the Fertile Crescent
Sumarian Achievements
Mix
100
What two land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
Who served as the link between the Sumerians and the gods?
Priests
100
What technology did the Hittites and Assyrians use in battle?
Iron weapons and chariots
100
This is a set of letters that can be combined to form words.
Alphabet
100
This is a way to supply water to an area of land.
Irrigation
200
Why did Mesopotamians build canals?
To control the river's flow
200
The army of ___________ defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia.
Sargon I
200
Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar both built up _______.
Babylon
200
This is a wheel, horse-drawn battle cart.
Chariot
200
This is the worship of many gods.
Polytheism
300
What was the large arc of farmland in Mesopotamia known as?
Fertile Crescent
300
True or false:
Babylon was located near present-day Baghdad, Iraq.
True
300
What resource was the Phoenicia was well known for?
Cedar wood
300
A king known as __________ became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Gilgamesh
300
This is a long poem that tells the story of a hero
Epic
400
True or false.
The amount of land controlled by a city-state depended on its population.
False.
Dependent on army.
400
What was the most likely reason ziggurats were tall?
To honor the gods
400
A ruler of a kingdom or empire is a ____________.
Monarch
400
Cuneiform is a form of writing using ______-shaped symbols.
Wedge
400
True or false:
Hunter-gatherer groups first settled in Mesopotamia more than 20,000 years ago.
False.
About 12,000 years ago.
500
What can you infer from city-states fighting over farmland?
Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow food.
500
What factors may have limited the growth of Sargon's empire?
Syrian Desert did not have enough good farmland.
500
Before cuneiform, __________, or picture symbols, were used for written communication.
Pictographs
500
What was the relationship between trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?
It spread along their trade route.
500
True or false:
Sumerians developed a math system based on the number 100.
False.
Based on 60