Sumer
Massive multi-tiered structures with temples built on top. Built by city-states as tributes to gods in order to keep them happy
What is a Ziggurat?
Who is Zoroaster?
Because his empire was so large, Darius I, cut it up into provinces and placed one of these government officials to watch over each one.
What is a governor?
Hammurabi's Code was important because it was the first set of laws to be...
What is written down?
Writing system developed by Sumerians made up of wedge-shaped shapes etched in clay
What is Cuneiform?
A system for ranking groups. Often used as a way to describe a social structure within a society.
What is Hierarchy?
Akkadian king that conquered Mesopotamia to create the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
The economic system promoted by King Darius I in order to replace the barter system.
What is a money economy?
One of the 7 ancient wonders, this structure was built by a Babylonian king as a present to his wife to remind her of home.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
What is an Alphabet?
The name of the two rivers that give Mesopotamia its name, and would flood to produce usable farm land.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Babylonian king that established the second Babylonian empire. Famous for the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
In order to make his empire more manageable, Darius I built these all across Persia.
What are roads?
The two types of law that were covered in Hammurabi's code.
Our systems of numbers and math is based on the number 10. The number system used in Sumer is based on this number.
What is 6?
The first civilization to make iron weapons and tools. Conquered Mesopotamia between 1400-1200 BC.
Who are the Hittites?
The Assyrian King Assurbanipal founds the first one of these in the city of Ninevah to his many writing tablets.
What is a library?
As part of his reinvention of trade, Darius I created a consistent system of these. It helped ensure that people could understand how much they were getting in each transaction.
What are weights and measures?
Hammurabi's Code was built on this philosophy
What is "Eye for an Eye"?
The story of an ancient king of Uruk and his adventures. Oldest known piece of recorded literature.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
A large majority of Sumerians were of this social class.
What are peasant farmers?
Who is Enkidu?
Persian King that conquers Mesopotamia in 539 BC.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
One of Hammurabi's decrees established this patron god of Babylon as the new chief god the Sumerian pantheon.
Who is Marduk?
Who are the Phoenicians?