People
This person created a code of law containing 282 laws.
Who is Hammurabi
This civilization was a collection of city states in Mesopotamia.
What is the term for small particles of soil left by a flood?
Silt
This mountain range is the starting point of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What are the Taurus Mountains.
What was the name for the Sumerian system of writing?
Cuneiform
This person was the creator of the worlds first empire.
Who is Sargon.
This civilization was led to great expansion by Cyrus.
Who are the Persians
What is the term for using gates and channels take water to crops?
Irrigation
What body of water do the Tigris and Euphrates empty into?
Persian Gulf
How many different symbols were used in cuneiform writing?
1200
This man defeated the Assyrians to start the Neobabylonian empire.
Who is Nabopolassar.
This civilization was famous for creating the battering ram, siege tower and using iron weapons.
Who are the Assyrians.
What is the term for a belief in more than one god?
Polytheism
Which is largest: Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent or Sumer?
Fertile Crescent
What is the name for long poem that records the deeds of a legendary hero?
Epic (Epic of Gilgamesh)
This man had to overcome a never ending tunnel before daybreak.
Who is Gilgamesh.
This group is also known as the Neobabylonians.
Who are the Chaldeans.
What is a payment to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender?
Tribute
Which empire was largest: Akkadian, Babylonian or Persian?
Persian
What shapes was cuneiform most notable for using in its writing?
Wedge shapes
This man is famous for bragging about the amount of lions that he killed.
Who is Ashurbanipal.
This group eventually ends the Persian dominance of the Fertile Crescent.
Who are the Greeks.
What is a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire?
Province
This is the city state in Sumer that was ruled by Gilgamesh.
What is the city state of Uruk.
Which group of people in the Fertile Crescent created an easier system of writing using an alphabet?
Phoenicians