Mesopotamia
What do we call early members of society that found food for survival?
What is Hunters & Gatherers
•is an organized society within a specific area.
What is a civilization?
The large arc of rich or fertile, farmland
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Created the world first civilization, cuneiform, wheel, plow, the base 60 system and more.
Who were the Sumerians?
a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
What is Silt?
These two things allowed primitive man to settle and create villages
What is domestication and agriculture
Babylon’s king and the city’s greatest monarch, or ruler of a kingdom or empire
was a brilliant war leader who brought all of Mesopotamia into his Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
The two rivers brought silt to the land and made the land ideal for farming.
What did the Tigris and Euphrates brought?
First people to master ironworking, which meant they can make strong weapons.
People who lived north of Babylon and ruled for 400 years
Who was Hittites and Kassites?
human-made waterways
what is a canal?
What two important rivers from Mesopotamia flooded on a yearly basis
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
•A king of Uruk became a legendary figure.
Who is Gilgamesh?
supplied water to farmland from the rivers by taking water through canals and ditches to fields.
What is irrigation?
•They admired the Sumerian culture, studied their language, and built temples to Sumerian gods.
•Babylon became a center for astronomy.
Who were the Chaldeans?
a wheeled, horse drawn cart used in battle, allowed Hittites soldiers to move quickly around a battlefield.
What is a chariot?
•The Akkadian ruler
He defeated all of the city-states of Sumer.
•When his army conquered northern Mesopotamia, he established the world’s first empire. Empire: land with different territories and peoples under a single
ruled for 50 years. After his death, his empire lasted only a century longer.
Who is Sargon?
It provided a way of supplying water to fields and storing water for times of need.
How did irrigation help farmers?
• had a strong army that used chariots and iron weapons.
•They spread terror before battles by looting villages and burning crops.
•The government demanded heavy taxes.
Who were the Assyrians?
a central city and all the countryside around it
What is a city-state?
Between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile?
Annual flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates
built a trading society in the eastern Mediterranean region
•Ruled by kings or a council of elders
•Government influenced by merchants
•Lost independence when conquered by Persia
Who were The Phoenicians?
a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life. These ideas are still used today.
What is the Hammurabi's Code?