To supply dry land with water by use of canals, pipes or ditches
What is irrigation?
100
Because of a lack of natural resources in Babylon, the ancient Babylonians were forced to do what with their neighbors in order to get what they needed to survive?
What is trade?
100
These powerful warriors used this as a power weapon to conquer other city-states
What is a battering ram?
100
Because of the discovery of irrigation, Mesopotamians were able to do what?
farm dry land?
100
made of mud, helped with building ziggurats and other buildings
What is a brick?
200
Who could attend school?
Who are the sons of rich men?
200
What happened to a man who put out the eye of another man?
His eye would be put out
200
The first capital of Assyria?
What is Ashur?
200
What was the first Mesopotamian civilization?
What is Sumer?
200
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
300
A self-governing region and the land surrounding the region. A wall made of mud bricks surrounded this region.
What is a city-state?
300
Who was the famous ruler of Babylon who created the first unified code of law?
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Assyria was located where?
In the Northern portion of Mesopotamia?
300
What are the three resources that made Mesopotamia a good place to start the first civilization?
What are wildlife, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and rich farm land
300
What contribution of Mesopotamia aided with transportation and trade?
What is the wheel?
400
The first system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
400
What was found as evidence that the Babylonians used advanced math?
What are clay tablets with advanced mathematical writing?
400
The Assyrian's did not do what to their conquered citizens?
Let them go (they were powerful and ferocious warriors?)
400
What are the names of the two rivers in ancient Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
400
In 1991, what halted archeologists from further exploring Iraq for Mesopotamian artifacts?
What is the Gulf War?
500
An example of the first literature
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
Babylon's code of law consisted of how many laws?
What are 282?
500
Which king built a magnificent palace to honor the goddess Ishtar?