Vocabulary
A person skilled at making things by hand
What is an artisan?
The founder and ruler of the Akkadian Empire?
Who was Sargon the Great?
Why were the lands of Sumer and Akkad good places for city-states to develop?
What is they were both in the Fertile Crescent and had great farmland?
Where is Mesopotamia located?
What is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southwest Asia?
What is the name of the writing system developed by the ancient Sumerians?
What is cuneiform?
A self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands and settlements; a city that controls the surrounding villages and towns
What is a city-state?
The Babylonian King who codified laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
This empire was full of tremendous sailors and shipbuilders, who also came up with a 22-letter alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Which two rivers surround Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What helped the Assyrians build an empire?
What are strong iron weapons and a large military presence?
An especially fine and fertile soil
What is silt?
This Chaldean ruler beautified his empire with hanging gardens and stunning temples.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
What was the last great empire of Ancient Mesopotamia that lasted for close to 200 years?
What is the Persian Empire?
What geographic feature borders the Akkadian Empire to the west?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
How did Hammurabi change Mesopotamian society?
What is he came up with the Code of Laws and displayed them for everyone to see, and also punished those who broke the laws?
A governor of a province in the Persian Empire
What is a satrap?
This Persian King showed tolerance to the people he conquered.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
How did religion shape the lives of ancient Mesopotamians?
What is it was so important and essentially dictated everything in their lives, through worship, sacrifice, etc?
What geographic feature borders the Akkadian Empire to the south?
What is the Syrian Desert?
How did the Phoenicians inspire future generations or empires?
What are shipbuilding, sailing, alphabet, trade, communication, etc?
The sympathy for the beliefs and practices of others
What is tolerance?
This Persian King had the 1,500-mile-long Royal Road built for better communication.
Who was Darius I?
What brought about the fall of the empires of ancient Mesopotamia?
What are internal conflicts, bad rulers, and the empires being too big to govern?
Why were the lands of Sumer and Akkad good places for city-states to develop?
What is it because they existed in the Fertile Crescent, which was close to rivers and had great farmland?
What are some ways in which Mesopotamian Empires have influenced the world we live in today? Please name at least 3 things!
What is farming, trade, writing, alphabet, government, laws, architecture, etc?