Rise of City-States
This is the Greek word for "the land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
They created irrigation systems.
This is the capital of the Akkadian Empire
This is the leader of the Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
This is the Sumerian style of writing.
What is cuneiform?
These are the 2 rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is the word for Sumerian religious towers.
What is ziggurat?
This is the capital of the Assyrian Empire
What is Nineveh?
This is the leader of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
This is the word for wealth sent from one ruler to another in a sign that the first is superior?
What is a tribute?
Name one thing Sumerians did to protect their cities.
What are strong walls or deep moats?
This is the earliest surviving literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Akkadians created these 3-D sculptures
What are steles?
Nebuchadnezzar II created this for his wife.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
The Old Stone Age ended with the invention of what?
Agriculture.
This happened after a food shortage in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains
This is the Sumerian harp-like instrument.
What is the lyre?
Assyrians created these 2-D sculptures, usually depicting battle scenes.
What are bas-reliefs?
Hammurabi connected his empire in these two ways (name just one)
what are building roads and creating a postal service?
The New Stone Age ended with the invention of what?
Writing.
This is why Sumerian city-states began to attack each other.
They all wanted as much water as they could get.
Sumerians turned THIS on its side to create the wheel
What is a pottery table?
This is Sargon's greatest achievement.
What is starting the world's first empire?
This has the phrase, "an eye for eye".
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Please name the Sumerian farming achievement that is NOT the irrigation system.