Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Assyria
Sumer
Babylonia
Vocabulary
100

The space between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

What is Mesopotamia?

100

A benefit of the empire.

What is better trade?

100

The place where cities first appeared.

What is Sumer?

100

The first leader to write a code of laws and post them where everyone could see.

Who was King Hammurabi

100

The business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.

What is domestication?

200

The place where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty.

What is the Persian Gulf?

200

This made it possible for Assyria's leaders to form a giant empire.

What are weapons and body protection from iron?

200

They pulled the wagons in the war.

What are wild donkeys?

200

The Babylonians were the first to make this to protect their city.

What are massive double and triple walls?

200

A craftsperson.

What is an artisan?

300

The place where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers start.

What are the Taurus Mountains?

300

The time period that the Assyrians major empire lasted.

What is more than three centuries?

300

The people of Sumer were the first to use this invention during war.

What is the wagons?

300

This is what Babylon is famous for.

What is beauty, strength and art?

300

Someone who writes.

What is a scribe?

400

The river that Jarmo is closest to.

What is the Tigris River?

400

The time when Assyrian kings began conquering their neighbors.

What is 900 BCE?

400

The invention that Sumer created.

What is irrigation?

400

The number of people thought to have lived in the second millennium BCE.

What is over 60,000

400

Someone who makes money by selling goods.

What is a Merchant?

500

The city between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

What is Kish?

500

The name of the Assyrians' original city.

What is Ashur

500

The time when there was a war between the states of Suer and Elam.

What is 2700 BCE?

500

A giant city with massive buildings, public squares, libraries, works of art, and fortresses.

What is a metropolis?

500

The belief that there are many gods.

What is Polytheism?