Fertile Crescent Empires
The first Emperor of Babylon who wrote the earliest set of written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Groups of travelers that would stop in Babylon and other Mesopotamian cities.
What are caravans?
Belief in many gods
What is Polytheism?
The greater geographic region of rich soil to which Mesopotamia belongs.
What is the Fertile Crescent
A professional writer
What is a scribe?
The people that conquered the Babylonian Empire and were great warriors because they constantly had to defend their home.
Who are the Assyrians?
Large marketplaces that thrived in the cities of Mesopotamia.
What is a bazaar?
The center of Sumerian cities where religious, social, and economic events would occur.
What is a Ziggurat?
The two rivers that Mesopotamia lies between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The first form of writing that was used to record trading and could be used for many different languages.
What is cuneiform?
The largest of the Fertile Crescent Empires that spanned from Greece to India
What is the Persian Empire?
A city that also governs itself and only itself.
What is a city-state?
Religious teachers who spoke for God and warned the people not to disobey God.
Who are the prophets?
City that was the capital of the Chaldean Empire?
What is Babylon?
Earliest set of public laws where the punishment was equal to the crime, following the saying, ”an eye for an eye”.
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
The other group of people who successfully overthrew the Assyrian Empire alongside the Chaldeans.
Who are The Medes?
The downfall of Sumer was caused by this.
What is wealth, prosperity, and constant warfare?
A binding agreement
What is a covenant?
Geographic feature that allowed the Phoenicians to trade and spread their alphabet?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Written language that was easier to learn, read, and write than other languages.
What is the Phoenician Alphabet?
Name of the Chaldean King who rebuilt Babylon with greater majesty, including the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
The scattering of a group of people.
What is a diaspora?
Persia’s monotheistic religion.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Consistent natural event that provided Mesopotamia what it needed to thrive and also brought occasional disaster
What is the flooding of rivers?
Empire that tolerated the practice of other religions, and spread the government system of Bureaucracy around the world.
What is the Persian Empire?