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Land Between Two Rivers
Fertile Crescent Empires
The Legacy of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean Civilizations
100
Mesopotamia
What is the name of the land between two rivers?
100
The Persians
Who did the NEW Babylonian empire fall to?
100
because they were written down and everyone knew what the laws were and their punishments.
Why were the laws important to the babylonians?
100
Snails
Where did the purple dye come from?
200
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What are the names of the rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
200
King Nebuchadnezar the 2nd
Who rebuilt the city of Babylon?
200
they began a system of writing independently. That means that they did not borrow ideas from other civilzations.
How did writing first began.
300
The belief in many gods
What is the definition of a polytheism?
300
The Armed charioteers.
Who was the most feared fighter in Assyria's army ranks?
300
symbols
fill in the blank scribes combined _________ to make groups of wedges and lines known as cuneiform.
400
Ziggurats are pyramids made of terraces, one on top of another,linked by ramps and stairs. Some were more than seven stories high. At the top of each Ziggurat was a shrine.
What are Ziggurats? Answer in a complete paragraph! Seriously its an entire paragraph.
400
Through conquest and trade.
How did the Persians spread their religion,their system of bureaucracy, and Babylonian science?
400
The Hammurabi code
What were their laws called?
500
The word Mesopotamia comes from the Greek words that mean "between the rivers"
Where did the word Mesopotamia come from and what does it mean?
500
trade and agriculture made babylonia rich because the babylonians constructed roads throughout the empire. This made travel easier which encouraged Babylonia's trade. It's made it a cross road of trade.
What made Babylonia rich and why?
500
It came from the mountains when then snow melted and washed down the clay
Where did the clay they used for writing come from?