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Fertile Crescent
The First Empires
The Assyrians and Persians
The Phoenicians
Vocabulary
100
Uruk
What is the first Mesopotamian city?
100
Around 2450 BC armies from Umma and this place met in a major battle:
What is Lagash?
100
Early on the Assyrians were part of these empires:
Who were the Akkadian and Babylonian empires?
100
These were used to make a purple dye.
What are sea snails?
100
To supply water to
What is irrigate?
200
Tigris and Euphrates
What is the two rivers in the Fertile Crescent?
200
Sargon created this empire by uniting Mesopotamia:
What is the Akkadian Empire?
200
Spell __________
What is Ashurbanipal?
200
This is the area the Phoenicians ruled.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
To worship more than one God
What is polytheism?
300
The first leaders of Sumerian city-states were priests, not:
Who were kings
300
This person united Mesopotamia again in 2100 BC. He was the ruler of Ur.
Who is Ur-Nammu
300
This king became ruler of Babylonia and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
300
These people made pottery, glass and metal objects.
Who were Phoenician craftworkers?
300
A permanent army of professional soldiers.
What is a standing army?
400
Means "land between the rivers" in Greek
What is Mesopotamia?
400
Hammurabi
Who is the king of Babylonia?
400
Cyrus the Great led the Persians to victory over the:
Who were the Medes?
400
The Phoenicians used this celestial object to navigate.
What is the North Star?
400
A trading system in which people exchange goods or services.
What is bartering?
500
Sumer
What is the world's first civilization?
500
282 to be exact
What is the number of laws in Hammurabi's code?
500
Cyrus the Great's son who continued his father's dream of increasing the Persian Empire.
Who was Cambyses II?
500
These two Greek letters make up the name of the alphabet.
What are alpha and beta?
500
Mesopotamian system of writing.
What is cuneiform?