Vocabulary
The similar cultures of a group of city-states connected them & made them a region, or a _________.
Civilization
The first civilization was what?
Sumer
The first empire was the _____________ Empire and their leader was ______________.
Akkadians and Sargon
__________ was the Amorite warrior who took over the unimportant city-state of Babylon and made it an empire.
Hammurabi
If you worship one God, that makes you a what?
Monotheist
Items shipped out or sold:
Items brought in or bought:
Exports
Imports
To help them irrigate their crops, Mesopotamians built ____________ or waterways.
Canals
The ____________ Empire was the second empire in the eastern world
Babylonian
King ____ took over parts of the Assyrian Empire and ruled with an iron fist (very controlling).
Nebuchadnezzar II
If you worship many gods, that makes you what?
Polytheist
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is known as Mesopotamia and the ________
Fertile Crescent
The __________ was a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire.
Code of Hammurabi
Part of the Assyrian empire eventually fell into the hands of the ___________.
The Chaldeans
Who became the first leader of the Persians and what was the name of his grandson who also led them
Cyrus the Great and King Darius
Who was promised to be the father of many nations?
Abraham
Mesopotamians built_______, or pyramid-shaped towers, to communicate with the gods.
Ziggurats
The Phoenicians were the first people to create what two things?
Alphabet & Purple Dye
All of these empires began using ______ to keep records, write their stories, etc.
Cuneiform
King Darius I required the entire empire to pay ______, which is similar to our taxes today.
Tribute
The 12 Tribes of Israel are named after the 12 sons of who?
Jacob/Israel
Scattering
Diaspora
Mesopotamia is part of which modern day country
Iraq
Since the Hittites had their chariots, the Assyrians created a _____, which is riding and fighting on horseback.
Calvary
Cyrus the Great also learned that ________ were frightened by the smell of _________, so he used this tactic in the battle against the Lydian Army.
horses, camels
Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and wrote the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible?
Moses