Features of Civilization
This is the feature of civilization where people take on a particular job such as artisan or merchant.
Job Specialization
The Sumerian form of writing.
Cuneiform
Sumerians invented writing to record what?
Business Transactions
Who was the leader of the Akkadians who conquered the Sumerians?
Sargon the Great
The first King of Babylonia?
Hammurabi
This is the feature of civilization where people are divided into different groups, ranked by their jobs.
Social Classes
Sumerians invented these to make travel and trade on the rivers easier.
Sailboats
Who was most likely to be a scribe in Sumeria?
Wealthy Boys
Sargon conquered most of Mesopotamia, creating the world's 1st...?
Empire
Babylonians created the world's first ___________ using Cuneiform.
Dictionaries
Cuneiform was one of the earliest forms of this feature of civilization.
Writing
Sumerians invented this to make farming easier.
Plow
What was the name of the Sumerian Temple?
Ziggurat
The Akkadians invented a new form of Bow known as the _____________ Bow, made of Horn, Sinew, and Wood.
Composite
Hammurabi's Empire came after the fall of what other Empire?
The Akkadian Empire
Mosaics were a part of this feature of civilization.
Arts and Architecture
The wheel was invented by the Sumerians to help with two different jobs, which were...?
Making Pottery and Farming
The Sumerian form of government was known as what?
City-State?
The Akkadian Empire lasted approximately how long?
200 Years
Hammurabi's code contains over _____________ laws?
200
In Religion, what is the word for the belief in many gods.
Polytheism
This Sumerian Invention was based on 60.
Numbers
What is the name of the Sumerian Epic?
Epic of Gilgamesh
This is the term for a group of soldiers who form a human wall of shields and spears.
Phalanx
Hammurabi's code is based on the ____________________ principle, meaning equal retribution.
"Eye for an Eye"