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100
The god of justice and the sun.
Who is Shamash?
100
The first civilization.
What is Sumer?
100
The land between two rivers. Located in the modern-day Middle East.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
c. 3100-2000 BC
What is Sumer?
100
The major innovation of the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform/writing?
200
The goddess of love and war.
Who is Innana/Ishtar?
200
An urban center exercising political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
200
Two rivers around which the first civilizations developed.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
c. 2350-2200 BC
What is Akkad?
200
The major innovation of the Babylonians.
What is a standardized law code/Code of Hammurabi?
300
The legendary Sumerian king who has his own epic.
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
Mesopotamian temples of massive size built on a stair step design.
What is a ziggurat?
300
An arch of fruitful land covering parts of modern day Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Egypt.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
c. 2000-1600 BC
What is Babylonia?
300
Visual images and symbols used in art to identify the subject of the work.
What is iconography?
400
A Babylonian king wrote the first systematic law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
The earliest form of writing, invented in Mesopotamia and inscribed with wedge-shaped characters. The fully developed writing of the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
400
A mountain range on the eastern border of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
400
c. 1750 BC
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
All the gods of a people or religion collectively.
What is a pantheon?
500
This king established the first empire.
Who is Sargon I?
500
A political state in which one or more formerly independent territories or peoples are ruled by a single sovereign power.
What is an empire?
500
Three main cities in Sumer.
What are Ur, Eridu, and Uruk?
500
c. 2335-2279 BC
What is Sargon I?
500
This city became the first empire.
What is Akkad?