Vocabulary
The belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
Supply water
What is irrigate?
These rivers were known as the Rivers of Life and Death.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
He was the king of the Babylonian Empire.
Who was King Hammurabi?
This was Nebuchadnezzar's most famous project.
What is the Hanging Gardens?
Independent state that includes a city and the surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
Independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
What is an ally?
This was the first civilization.
What is Sumer?
The Babylonian Empire's king encouraged this.
What is trade?
Phoenicians used these to dye cloth purple.
What are sea snails?
Wide, flat plain in present-day Iraq
What is Mesopotamia?
Soldiers that fight while riding horses.
What is cavalry?
These are how most traders transported their goods.
What are rivers and canals?
These were the categories that Hammurabi's code was categorized into.
What is trade, labor, property, and family?
Sailors used this to guide their voyages.
What is the North Star?
Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
What is barter?
Payment or gift to a stronger power.
What is tribute?
This was often given to priests and recorded on a tablet, eventually turning into cuneiform
What is fish?
This was why Hammurabi's Code was so important.
What is the first set of laws to be written down?
This civilization had the world's first cavalry
What is Assyria?
System of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
What is cuneiform?
The art of steering a ship from place to place.
What is navigation?
They led Sumerian cities before the kings
What are priests?
Hammurabi's Code did not apply these equally to all citizens.
What are punishments?
Each city-state had these things.
What is government and main god?