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Mesopotamia Civilization
Places
Vocabulary
Empires
Causes & Effects
100
A Sumerian temple.
What is a ziggurat?
100
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
to take over the land of others
What is conquer?
100
responsible for city improvements
Who are the Babylonians?
100
the cause for more needed weapons
What is war?
200
A person who wrote things for others.
What is a scribe?
200
Sargon's capital city
What is Akkad?
200
conquered land of many peoples
What is an empire?
200
empire Sargon ruled
What are the Akkadians?
200
the effect of new war technologies
What was increased deaths?
300
Sumerian writing system
What is cuneiform?
300
Western edge of Akkadian Empire
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
Babylonian collection of laws
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
300
empire following the Babylonians
Who are the Assyrians?
300
the effect of continued disagreements
What was war?
400
This includes a city & the farmlands around it.
What is a city-state?
400
Important Assyrian city
What is Nineveh?
400
money paid to support the government
What are taxes?
400
empire controlling trade routes
Who are the Assyrians?
400
no natural boundaries
What caused pillars to be put up to mark the borders?
500
Groups with different levels of importance.
What are social classes?
500
City-state conquered by Sargon
What is Kish?
500
fair treatment under law
What is equal justice?
500
defeaters of the Assyrian Empire
Who are the Medes?
500
cause for most wars in Mesopotamia
What was farmland protection and water rights?