Vocabulary
kept records for kings and priests
scribes
the two rivers in the Fertile Crescent
Euphrates and Tigris
they invented the battering ram
Assyrians
the belief in many gods
polytheism
two resources of the Phoenicians
purple dye and cedar wood
not having enough food
famine
the continent the fertile crescent is in
Asia
they tracked the length of a year
Babylonians
this might anger the gods
bad behavior
the importance of the alphabet
so people who spoke different languages could communicate
an invention of the Assyrians
battering ram
the Sea that the Fertile Crescent is on
Mediterranean
He created the first set of laws
Hammurabi
what was offered to the gods
food
Hammurabi's Code was important because
showed expectations and consequences for your actions
a city that had its own government
city-state
the crossroads of trade were put in this location because
it was central; in the middle of many places
They created the alphabet
Phoenicians
a place of worship in Sumer
ziggurat
land and water
the story of sea monsters
myth
city-states were separated by these
mountains
They raised honey bees
Babylonians
the staircase in a ziggurat was for
the gods to come down to Earth
the first civilizations were in
the Fertile Crescent