"Mesopotamia" refers to the land between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
100
The centers of population in Sumer were comprised of independent cities and the surrounding villages under their control called ______________.
What are city-states
100
Assyrian ruler from 1813 to 1781 BCE
Who was Shamshi Adad
100
Said "I have brought justice to all my subjects"
Who was Hammurabi
100
King of New Assyria that conquered the Northern and Western part of Mesopotamia around 911 BCE
Who was Adad Nirari
200
A nation and other nations it has conquered; a political unit often made up of several nations under one authority
What is an empire
200
The earliest sumerian city-states were run by these leaders of religion
What are priests
200
Ruler of Akkad that created the world's first empire
Who was Sargon
200
Any organized set of laws or rules
What is a code
200
King of New Assyria in 745 BCE that dealt with rebellion by forcing people to move away from their homelands
Who was Tiglath Pileser III
300
Belief in more than one god
What is polytheism
300
By 2500 BC, Sumerians developed this form of writing which consisted of 600 wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform
300
Invaders from these mountains left Akkad in ruins in 2250 BCE
What are the Zagros Mountains
300
The Code of Hammurabi consisted of this many laws
What is 282
300
Group from Babylonia that overthrew the Assyrian empire
Who were the Chaldeans
400
Long poem about one hero
What is an epic
400
To read and write messages, people employed these professional writers and record keepers
What are scribes
400
Shamshi Adad and his sons feared this kingdom would invade
What was Babylonia
400
Two of the kingdoms that was becoming a threat to the Babylonians after Hammurabi's death
Who were Phoenicians/Jews/New Assyrians
400
Ruler that sent thousands of Jews to Babylon as slaves in 587 BCE
Who was Nebuchadnezzar
500
A flat, elevated area of land
What is a plateau
500
Leadership of Sumerian city-states eventually transferred to kings, largely because the city-states needed full-time military leaders to protect them from this
What are raids/nomads/
Will also accept needed management for irrigation
500
The Assyrian empire, under Shamshi Adad, conquered lands to the west and encompassed what is now this country
What is Lebanon
500
They invaded Babylonia and ruled the empire for four centuries, bringing peace and order until their fall in 1200 BC
Who were the Kassites
500
One of the famous structures build by Babylonians during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar