Fertile Crescent
Sumer and Akkad
Babylonia and Assyria
Judaism
Vocabulary
100

This was the most popular building technique used at the beginning of civilization.

mud-brick building

100

Rectangular platforms that are stacked together making this huge pyramid-like structure.

ziggurat

100

These two kings ruled the first and second ages of Babylonia with intelligence and authority.

Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II

100

The belief in one God, which is the key to Judaism.

Monotheism

100

The practice of owning someone as property.

Slavery

200

At the beginning of Mesopotamian civilization, the main job of the people at first was this.

Farming

200

This practice of worshipping many gods was started by the Sumerians. 

polytheism

200

This was the greatest goal of the Assyrians in becoming a great empire.

War and conquering everything.

200

The wise king who would build God's temple in the city of Jerusalem.

Solomon

200

A professional writer, or recorder of daily events.

scribe

300

To assist with crops, the early people invented this technique to water them.

irrigation

300

This was the first permanent form of writing created by the Sumerians.

cuneiform

300

Ashurbanipal stored great amounts of knowledge in a library located in this city.

Nineveh

300

The main trading city of the Phoenicians who mastered the waves through expert sailing and navigation.

Carthage

300

People who come from the same family line.

Descendant 

400

The villages of Uruk, Kish, Lagash, Nippur, Umma, and Ur grew to become cities that have their own government named this.

city-states

400

This king, along with his daughter Enheduanna, made the first empire of Akkad,

Sargon

400

The Hammurabi Code had this many laws recorded in it.

282

400

This group of people invented and mastered the usage of coin bartering to make trading much better.

Lydians

400

A ruling family.

Dynasty

500

The Fertile Crescent rests between these two rivers.

Tigris and Euphrates

500

The Sumerians adopted this language in addition to their own.

Hebrew

500

The last of Babylonia would be conquered by the Persians during this year.

539 B.C.

500

The "Father" of Judaism.

Abraham

500

An agreement made between two sides.

Covenant