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Vocabulary
Land Between Two Rivers
Babylonia and Assyria
The Legecy of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean Civilizations
100
A traditional story or legend that explains people's beliefs.
What is a Myth
100
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was know as what?
What is Mesopotamia.
100
The biggest and most important Mesopotamian civilizations.
What were Babylonia and Assyria
100
Hammurabi ruled what nation from 1792 to 1750 B.C.?
What is Babylonia.
100
The region of Phoenicia was located on what body of water?
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
200
During this time people often starve.
What is Famine
200
By 3500 B.C. the earliest known cities arose around this area of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer.
200
The center of the Babylonian empire.
What is Babylon.
200
This code, which was the first written set of laws, contained 282 laws organized into different catergories.
What is Hammurabi's Code.
200
One important advantage to the Phoenician alphabet was that is was simplier than this form of writing that combined symbols.
What is cuneiform.
300
A group of traders traveling together.
What is a Caravan?
300
Seperate city-states developed in Sumer because?
What is because they were seperated by long distances.
300
He created the Babylonian empire by uniting the cities of Sumer.
Who is Hammurabi.
300
The Phoenicians helped spread civilization throughout the Meditteranean area by using these to trade goods with other people.
What were ships.
400
Symbols for writing that represent sounds.
What is alphabet
400
Name one geographical factor that helped civilizations develop in Mesopotamia.
What is water from two rivers or fertile soil.
400
Babylon became the crossroads of trade because of what key factor about its location?
What is it was located between cities to the south and north.
400
This was first developed in Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C.
What is writing.
400
These people could trace their beginnings back to Mesopotamia where they lived as merchants and shepherds.
Who are the Israelites.
500
In Mesopotamia, people eventually combined symbols inot a script.
What is Cuneiform
500
Around 2300 B.C. Sumer was conquered by the armies of this neighboring nation.
What is Akkadia.
500
They conquered the Assyrians in 612 B.C.
Who were the Medes and Chaldeans.
500
The clay that scribes used for writing was provided by these.
What were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
500
The Babylonians and Israelites had this in common.
What is they both lived by a code of laws.