Vocabulary
A person who writes.
What is a scribe?
They were slaves that got captured by enemies during the war.
What did the bottom level o the social structure do?
The space on top of the Mediterranean sea and the fertile crescent?
Where were the Taurus moutains?
They were the first to build massive double and triple walls around their city?
What helped the Babylonians to make their city so successful.
The northern part of Mesopotamia.
Where is Assyria based in?
The geographic area in between the rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, also known as the "land between two rivers".
Where is Mesopotamia?
It included merchants, artisans, farmers, and fishers.
What did the middle class include in the social structure?
The little space in the Arabian peninsula.
Where is the Jordan river?
Why was it fair that they wrote in stone where everyone could see it.
A small city-state at first?
What did Assyria first start as?
The business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.
What is Agriculture?
It included priests, king, nobles, and government officials.
What did the highest level include?
It is the space in the arabian peninsula and next to the Jordan river.
Where is Jericho?
The first leader to write a code of laws for an empire and post them where everyone could see them.
Who was King Hammurabi?
They were also ready to fight.
How did Assyria set up their army like?
A type of writing that uses wedge-shaped characters.
What is a cuneiform?
The three rivers that go into the fertile cresent?
What is the Nile river, the Tigris river, and the Euphrates river.
A giant city carefully designed with massive buildings, public squares, libraries, works of art, and fortresses.
What is a metropolis?
They built long roads.
What did they build for the soldiers and tax collecters to move around in?
The two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian gulf.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
They enforced the laws and collected taxes.
What did the kings enforce?
The two seas are in the fertile cresent.
What is the Red sea and the Mediterranean sea?
A small and typical Mesopotamian city-state.
Building long roads to help the soldiers and tax collecters move around.
What helped make the economy grow bigger?