Language, Writing, and Religion
What was the first form of writing called?
Cuneiform
The people who live in Sumer are called?
Sumerians
The city and its surrounding settlements is called a what?
City-State
This river was known as the "Swift River" in the Mesopotamia
Tigris
____ the Great led a successful uprising against the Persians.
Cyrus
This mud-like material is what the Mesopotamians used to write on.
Clay
This person makes things with their hands.
Artisan
Crucial development that allowed us to turn floodwater into thriving farmlands.
Irrigation
Iraq
The Code of Hammurabi was written on an 8ft stone slab called a _____.
Stela
What does it mean to believe in many gods or goddesses?
Polytheism
These people were considered below all others, even farmers _____.
Slaves
A class system based on wealth and power.
Social-Class
Where was Phoenicia's most famous colony located?
(Looking for the colony name or continent name.)
Carthage/Africa
The Phoenician alphabet had how many letters in it?
22
What was used to chisel into clay-like materials in order to write on them?
Reeds/Sharpened blades of grass.
This king wrote a set of laws named after himself called the code of ________.
Hammurabi
Sargon developed the world's first ____ by conquering Sumer & Northern Mesopotamia.
Empire
This was Mesopotamia's first civilization.
Sumer
What does Ziggurat translate to?
MountainTop
Who was believed to live at the top of the Ziggurat?
God/gods
Goddess/Goddesses
The storm god that brought about rain and floods, what was their name?
Ishkur
(Phoenicians) directly translates to what?
Purple Dye People
What is the name for an administrative district?
Province
This Chaldean King ruled for 43 years.
Nebuchadnezzar II