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I was a Babylonian King
Who is HAMMURABI?
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
The have a deserved reputation for being the brutal bullies of Mesopotamia.
What is the Assyrians?
100
A lot of slave labor was needed to make the Tigris and Euphrates useful.
What is irrigation?
100
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
200
Mesopotamia gave us a form of writing.
Who was cuneiform?
200
They were able to communicate directly with the gods who were moody and vindictive.
Who were the priests?
200
His claim to fame (Hammurabi) was this.
What was his famous law code?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
A high ranking military person.
What is a general?
300
One of the oldest known works of literature.
Who was Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
You have actual history instead of just a lot of guesswork and archaeology.
What is writing?
300
A way of choosing their generals for their armies.
What is meritocracy?
300
My name means "land between two rivers."
What is the Mesopotamia?
300
Trading eventually led Mesopotamia to develop the world's first.
What is a territorial kingdom?
400
They were known to conquer the environmentally weakened cities.
Who were the nomads?
400
Hammurabi tried to portray himself in these two roles.
What are shepherd and father?
400
There elements made the river valleys important.
What is farming, trade, and cities?
400
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
Where people could produce as much as they would like as long as long as they gave taxes to the government.
What is private enterprise?
500
Around 911 BCE, the neo-Assyrian Empire grew from its hometowns of Ashur and Nineveh to include another famous city.
Who is Egypt?
500
The Assyrian army used weapons made out of this metal that helped defeat their enemies bronze weapons?
What is iron?
500
In about 2340 B.C., he conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
500
This is the first major civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
500
The biggest problem with empires is that by definition they're diverse and __________ - __________, which makes them hard to unify
What is multi-ethnic?