Mesopotamia
Two major rivers in this area are?
Tigris and Euphrates
This important invention started as a device to help make clay pots.
Wheel
Most powerful king in all of Babylon?
Hammurabi
Assyrians were the first to use this type of metal to defeat enemies?
Iron
Major river in Egypt and which way did it flow?
Da Nile and south to north.
First major city to come out of this area?
Sumer
This was built to help prevent raiding invasions?
Walls
Hammurabi's Code
The civilization held the largest land area for the time?
Persians
This important Architectural find allowed us to translate Egyptian?
Rosetta Stone
When you farm enough for what your family needs?
Subsistence Farming
The worship of many gods?
polytheism
Where were the Phoenicians primarily located?
Coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Leader of the Persians........nice guy
Cyrus
Egyptian Paper
Papyrus
System of writing in Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
This is what a temple was called to the Sumarians?
Ziggurat
How do you spell Phoenician?
Phoenician
This trail connected trade routes in Persia?
Royal Road
This guards the largest Pyramid of Egypt
Sphinx
Known as the first great story ever written?
Epic of Gilgamesh
Name one Sumerian city?
Ur, Uruk, or Akkad
Name of small group that lived in Fertile Crescent and was the first monotheistic religion?
Jews
This was used to pay for things along the trade route in Persia?
Standard Coinage
This book help guide Egyptians through the afterlife?
Book of the Dead