What is an innovation of Sumerian farmers for carrying heavy loads?
100
innovation
What is a new way of doing things
100
Syrian
What is the desert around which Mesopotamia curves?
100
alphabet
What is the main contribution of the Phoenicians?
100
Sargon
What is the first known conqueror in the region of Mesopotamia?
200
iku
What is the land measurement created from the need to mark boundaries for farming?
200
taxation
What is the requirement of people to pay taxes to support the government?
200
Persian Gulf
What is the body of water southeast of Mesopotamia?
200
monotheism
What is the main contribution of the Israelites?
200
Akkadian
What was the name of Sargon's empire?
300
quart
What is the basic unit of measurement created from a need to measure wheat and barley?
300
empire
What is a conquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler?
300
Tigris and Euphrates
What is the name of the 2 rivers that Mesopotamia lay between?
300
coined money
What is the main contribution of the Lydians?
300
Assyria and Babylonia
What are the two strong centers of power between which the Mesopotamian city-states found themselves stuck after the Akkadian Empire weakened?
400
cargo boats with sails
What is the innovation created from the need to carry trade goods up the river?
400
Code of Hammurabi
What is a collection of laws made by a Babylonian leader to promote equal justice?
400
Fertile Cresent
What is the area which spreads from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea that is shaped like a quarter moon curving around the Syrian Desert to the Persian Gulf?
400
division of labor
What was the result of a surplus of food/successful agriculture in Sumer?
400
Hammurabi
What is the name of the conquerer who established a code of laws for Babylonians between 1790 and 1750 B.C.?
500
writing
What is the greatest Sumerian innovation resulting from a need to keep records?
500
colony
What is a settlement seperate from, but under the control of, a home country?
500
Israel and Judah
What two parts were the land of Israel divided into?
500
Social Classes
What is the division of people based on the value or importance of their work?
500
Assyrian
What is the name of the empire that eventually gained control of the region of Mesopotamia after Hammurabi's empire collapsed?