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GEOGRAPHY
GOVERNMENT
RELIGION
SUMERIANS
THOSE OTHER GUYS--Where were they from?
100
The "Land Between the Rivers"
What is Mesopotamia
100
King of Babylon who developed a law code based on harsh laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
Wedge shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
100
Hammurabi---(watch out for your hands!!)
What is Babylon?
200
The land great for growing that stretches in a partial moon shape from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean coast.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
A political division where a city controls itself and the surrounding area.
What is a city-state?
200
Important people in the social pyramid in ancient society that were able to communicate with the gods.
What are priests?
200
A person who learned to read and write....not everyone was allowed to do this!
What is a scribe
200
Gilgamesh (Remember, he wasn't a real person, but the world's first super hero story)
What is Sumer?
300
The two rivers that helped form the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
Each city-state used this for protection.
What is a wall?
300
A large, tiered temple with a shrine at the top found in each city-state
What is a ziggurat?
300
An invention which allowed people to move along the river with less effort.
What is a sailboat?
300
Sargon (loved power......so he made himself an emperor!)
What is Akkad?
400
The southern area of Mesopotamia where the first city-states developed and many inventions were created.
What is Sumer?
400
A group of many different lands united under one ruler.
What is an empire?
400
The first rulers of city-states, which shows how important religion was.
What are priests?
400
Invented by the Sumerians, we can thank this for our measurement of the hour, the minute, and the degrees in a circle.
What is a number system based on 60?
400
Nebuchadnezzar (those Hanging Gardens were gorgeous!)
What is Chaldea?
500
The modern day country where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq?
500
Assyrian kings divided the empire into these and chose officials to govern them.
What are provinces?
500
These two types of buildings are found around a ziggurat.
What is a palace, a home, or a royal storehouse?
500
A person who makes pottery, cloth, jewelry, or metal products.
What is an artisan?
500
Ashurbanipal (he was a violent, bloody terror!)
What is Assyria?