Technology
Mesopotamians crafted strong axes, swords, and daggers out of this material of which an age of human history is named.
What is Bronze?
The Sumerians developed this form of writing, the first of its kind in the world.
What is Cuneiform?
These two rivers flowed through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This group, led by Sargon, conquered Mesopotamia to establish the world's first empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
Increasing population due to surplus food from farming led to trouble maintaining order, so these self-governing places began to form, which included the surrounding settlements.
What are city-states?
This ox-drawn tool made it easier to cultivate large areas of land.
What is the plow?
These purple-dye people developed a system of 22 letters in their alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
The key characteristic of the soil in Mesopotamia is evident in its Crescent shaped nickname.
What is fertile?
This empire had a strong agricultural economy and a large professional army that helped them conquer all of Mesopotamia, parts of Asia Minor, and Egypt by 650 B.C.
The Assyrian Empire
At the center of each city-state, there was a huge, pyramid-shaped temple for worshiping their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
This human-made way of bringing water to fields for farming was developed by the Sumerians and is still in use today.
What is irrigation?
Cuneiform was written using this method.
What is with a tablet and stylus?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into this gulf.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Infighting in the Assyrian Empire led this group to take advantage of the distracted people, eventually leading to them conquering the Assyrians in 612 B.C.
Who are the Chaldeans?
The vast Babylonian Empire contained many different peoples who all followed different laws, so King Hammurabi created this to create a clear, written system called.
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
When we hop in a car, or ride a bike, we have the Mesopotamians to thank for this invention.
What is the wheel?
The Epic of this character is the world's oldest recorded story in which the king has an encounter with a monster.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Farming began in this moon-shaped region around 9800 B.C.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This group spent much time at sea, establishing trade routes, exporting culture and a famous purple dye for which they're named after.
Who are the Phoenicians?
This Chaldean king of Babylon created impressive hanging gardens as well as a huge ziggurat called the Tower of Babel.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar II?
This Mesopotamian device that used sliding beads to count is the basis for our modern day calculators.
What is the abacus?
This Babylonian story tells the story of the chief god, Marduk, and how he creates the world and the stars.
What is the Epic of Creation?
City-states began to develop in this area of Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C.
What is Sumer?
This group of people led by Cyrus the Great captured the Babylonian Empire in 539 B.C., and they found success in tolerance for the beliefs and practices of others.
Who are the Persians?
These people governed Persian provinces, or administrative districts.
What is a satrap?