This King of Persia conquers the Babylonian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
100
This was thought to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World built by a famous king for his homesick wife.
What is The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
100
This weapon of war used by the Assyrians, can be compared to our modern day tank.
What is a chariot?
100
From c. 2600 BC onward, these people wrote multiplication tables on clay tablets and dealt with geometry, algebra, and division problems. They also were he first to use the abacus.
Who were the Babylonians.
200
The name of the gulf where Mesopotamia's two major rivers empty into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
His set of laws inspired other world leaders on how to control their nations and to do it in a fashion that will keep every citizen from doing wrong.
Who is King Hammurabi?
200
This was an ancient temple built in layers somewhat like a pyramid. Each city-state had one to honor their own city god.
What is a Ziggurat?
200
This weapon can achieve a range of up to 700 yards
What is a Long Bow?
200
These people first invented Cuneiform.
Who are the Sumerians
300
The Fertile Crescent is called this because of its _________ _________ and its _____________.
What are its shape and rich soil?
300
This King was the first to unite the city-states of Sumer into a vast empire of the entire Fertile Crescent. His legacy was one of trade and one of forming the standing army, which later rulers would use to spread their own havoc.
Who is King Sargon?
300
This is the modern day city of Ancient Babylon.
What is Baghdad?
300
This battle plan was used to starve the enemies out of their cities and eventually surrender.
What is to build a Seige Wall or a Seige Ramp?
300
"Bad Blood" was the belief of sickness for many millennium. Doctors did this in order to cure it.
What is Bloodletting.
400
The name of the large sea that forms the Western Border of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
400
This fairly famous and earlier King was known to war against Judah and Babylon. He re-built the capital city of Nineveh to magnificence.
Who is Sennacherib?
400
This city was located on the East Bank of the Tigris River across form modern day city of Mosul.
What is Nineveh?
400
This weapon was invented to crush and destroy large things like city gates.
What is bettering ram?
400
The practice of boring holes into the skull to cure illnesses like evil spirits believed to possess the sick, the mentally ill, to treat epilepsy, headaches, abscesses and blood clots.
What is Trepanation.
500
These two mountain ranges are the sources for Mesopotamia's 2 major rivers.
What are the Zagros and the Taurus Mountains.
500
He was second to the last of the Ancient Kings of Neo-Babylonia to rule. He was rich, famous, wealthy, a conqueror, ruthless, and rebuilt Babylon to magnificence. His Empire reached from the Persian Gulf to Egypt.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
A model of this was reconstructed and is now in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin., Germany today. Originally built by the Babylonian kKng Nebuchadnezzar II and dedicated to a goddess around 575 BC. It was awesome in appearance and one of the most impressive monuments of the ancient Near East.
What is The Ishtar Gate?
500
The worship of many or gods is called this.
What is Polytheism?
500
Girls were only allowed to attend school if they were studying to be this.