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Name that River
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The Sumerians
Other Empires-Part 1
Other Empires- Part 2
100
River that gave birth to Ancient Egypt?
What is the Nile?
100
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower.
What is a ziggurat?
100
Sumerian construction material.
What is sun dried brick?
100
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is the legal system created by which Babylonian King?
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The cruelest and most feared group ever to control Mesopotamia.
Who are the Assyrians?
200
River that gave birth to Ancient India.
What is the Indus?
200
An upside down U/V shaped structure that supports weights, as in a doorway.
What is an arch?
200
The celestial body that was the basis of the Sumerian calendar.
What is the moon?
200
Before taking all of the Hebrews into slavery, what city did the Chaldeans destroy?
What is Jerusalem?
200
This is what Mesopotamia means in Greek.
What is "Land between the rivers?"
300
River that gave birth to Ancient China.
What is the Yellow (Hwang Ho) River?
300
A system of tunnels used by the Sumerians to supply land with water.
What is irrigation system?
300
Pointed stick used for writing on wet clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
300
Capital city of the Babylonian Empire.
What is Babylon?
300
The distinct, albeit short-lived, advantage that the Hittites used to help them conquer Mesopotamia.
What is smelting iron? (iron weapons)
400
Name a river that gave birth to Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris or Euphrates?
400
This means you have importance in society.
What is status?
400
Sumerians used these symbols to stand for specific objects in their writings.
What is a pictograph?
400
Chaldean science that studied the composition and movements of celestial bodies.
What is astronomy?
400
Nebuchadnezzar built this structure in order to impress his wife who was homesick.
What is the Hanging Gardens?
500
A reason why civilizations are born on river banks.
What is 1) river banks have fertile soil 2) rivers have many uses for civilizations 3) rivers are great means of transportation.
500
This is the Ancient Sumerian system of writing using wedged shaped characters.
What is cuneiform?
500
Largest city in Ancient Sumeria
What is Sumer?
500
Rather than being based on revenge, the Hittites' legal system was based on this factor.
What is compensation?
500
Assyrian King Assurbanipal built the ancient world's largest library in this city. It housed 22,000 clay tablets.
What is Ninevah?