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Vocabulary 2
People 2
100
People who study and write about the past
Who are historians?
100
Modern day Middle East
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rocks
What is a fossil?
100
A group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
100
The king who created Hanging Gardens for his wife and ruled the Chaldeans
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
200
People who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been
Who are archeologists?
200
City on the banks of the Euphrates River in Northern Mesopotamia
What is Babylon?
200
Complex societies with cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions and a writing system
What is a civilization?
200
An immense staircase of greenery
What is a hanging garden?
200
People who study the heavenly bodies
Who are astronomers?
300
People who study how humans developed and related to one another
Who are anthropologists?
300
Many cities that formed a region in southern Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
300
Man-made system for watering crops
What is irrigation?
300
Groups of traveling merchants
What are caravans?
300
Ruler who expanded the Persian empire
Who is Cyrus
400
Record keepers who held honored positions in society and often became judges or political leaders
Who are scribes?
400
"The land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
400
A city and its surrounding land with its own government
What is a city-state?
400
Political districts with chosen officials to govern them
What are provinces?
400
People who invented writing
Who are the Sumerians?
500
The king of Babylon who created city streets and irrigation systems
Who is Hammurabi?
500
A grand-temple meaning "mountain of god"
What is a ziggurat?
500
The Sumerian form of symbol writing
What is cunieform?
500
The capital of the Assyrian empire
What is Nineveh?
500
Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth or pottery
Who are artisans?