These two rivers are found in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This king wrote down a code of law on stone pillars around his empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
Sumer had a least ___ (#) city-states.
What is 12 cities -states?
Hammurabi’s laws were divided into two branches:
What are the civil law and criminal law?
The meaning of the word "Mesopotamia" mean in Greek.
What is "land between two rivers"?
Nebuchadnezzar built this for his beloved wife
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
It stretched from Asia Minor to India, including present-day Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
What is the Persian empire?
He founded one of the world’s first libraries at Nineveh.
Who was Assurbanipal?
He built the first known empire in world history, but it did not last long. Name the emperor and the empire
Who was Sargon from the Akkadian empire.
Hammurabi Code followed this principle.
What is “an eye for an eye and a life for a life.”?
Hammurabi code protected these two powerless groups of people.
What was to protect women and slaves?
What is this kind of writing called?
This kind of writing is called cuneiform.
They were the first inhabitants of Mesopotamia
He was a Persian thinker and religious leader who believed in only one wise god during the Persian empire.
Who was Zoroaster?
Who are the Greeks? What are the vowels?
What is this kind of temple called?
What is a ziggurat?
This military technology was invented by others and modified by the Hittites.
What was the horse drawn chariot?
Phoenicians manufactured these two valuable goods.
What are glass from coastal sand and a purple dye from a tiny sea nail called “Tyrian purple”?
They occupied the eastern Mediterranean coast (today Lebanon and Syria)
Who were Phoenicians
He was the first king of the Persia empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
This was the major advancement of the Hittites.
What was the knowledge of how to extract iron from ore?
He was the chief of the gods in Babylon
Who was Marduk?
Persians pursued this policy throughout their empire.
What is a policy of Tolerance or acceptance?
How many laws did Hammurabi write down?
Hammurabi wrote down 300 laws on stone pillars.
Warfare was central to this culture
Who were the Assyrians?
He built the Gardens of Babylon for his beloved wife
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The Sumerians left great legacies in these fields. Mention two examples for each.
What are Math: develop basic algebra and geometry and set a number system based on six. They divided the hour into 60 minutes and the circle into 360 degrees.
Astronomy: Predict solar and lunar eclipses
literature: The Epic of Gilgamesh?
These were the layers of the Sumerians social system:
What are the following levels?
Top: ruling families, leading officials, high priests
Middle: lesser priests, scribes, merchants, artisans
Low: peasants, farmers (majority)
very Low: slaves
This was a significant Phoenician contribution to culture
What was the alphabet (22 symbols that stood for consonant sounds)?
He was a single wise god, who ruled the world according to Zoroaster.
Who was Ahura Mazda?