What is a succession of rulers from the same family?
100
They invented writing
Who were the Sumerians?
100
How farmers got water to their crops
What are irrigation canals?
200
Name of the two rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
He built a library at Nineveh
Who was Assurbanipal?
200
Laws were written and posted on this
What is an 8 foot high stele?
200
Name of first writing
What is Cuneiform?
200
What Mesopotamians fought over
What is water?
300
Where the Tigris and Euphrates empty
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
He unified northern and southern Mesopotamia and created the world's first empire
Who was Sargon I?
300
First system of government in Mesopotamia before kings
What is the Bicameral System?
300
Type of religion practiced
What is Polytheism
300
What the canals constructed by Nebuchadnezzar did for Mesopotamia (2)
What are
1. Connected both rivers to facilitate trade
2. Turned Babylon into the largest trading center of the Middle East
400
The two mountain ranges found in Mesopotamia
What are the Zagros and Taurus Mtns?
400
This caused the failure of Mesopotamia?
What is weak sons fighting for control weakened the country which left it open to invasion?
400
Explain the Bicameral system
What is it consisted of an Upper House of elders and a Lower House of priests, scribes and artisans?
400
Name for Mesopotamian temples
What are ziggurats?
400
Name 5 inventions of the Mesopotamians
What are
1. writing (cuneiform)
2. Wheel
3. Sail
4. # system based on 60
5. Medicine
6. 1st map
500
What defenses Mesopotamia had (natural and man-made) (3)
What are
1. Zagros and Taurus Mtns
2. Arabian Desert
3. Walled cities with moats
500
Explain what Hammurabi's written code of laws do for people (name 3)
What is
1. Protect the welfare of the people
2. Make justice visible to all
3. Cannot be arbitrarily changes
4. Destroy wickedness so the strong may not injure the weak?
500
Name five ways that writing was used in Mesopotamia
What are
1. Taxes
2. Census
3. Acreage
4. Historical events
5. Current events
6. Trade transactions
7. Stories
8. Crop production?
500
Why the library at Nineveh is so important
What is it provided sources for scholars to learn about ancient Mesopotamia?
500
Name 5 things rivers do for people
What are
1. Water for people, plants and animals
2. Provided fertile soil during annual flooding
3. Natural resources such as clay, reed,
4. food ie: Fish and fowl
5. Transportation and trade routes