Lesson 1
The particles of Fertile Soil
What is Silt
This Army was made up of infantry, or foot soldiers, calvary, or horse soldiers, and charioteers.
What is the Assyrian Army
The First to create weapons
What or who is the Assyrians
This figure was said to be a god and a Human
What or Who is Gilgamesh
A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
What is a province
A belief in more than one God
What is Polytheism
people who study the heavenly bodies
What is an Astronomer
First to create/use the wheel
Who is the Sumerians
This leader created a set of laws posted for all to follow. An eye for an eye tooth for a tooth
What is Hammurabi's code
A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
What is an epic
Mean the "Land between the rivers" Tigris and Euphrates
What is Mesopotamia
Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
Who is Nebuchadnezzar
A person who copies or writes out documents
What is a scribe
United the people of Sumer and Akkad
Who is Sargon
Having to do with soldiers, weapons, war
What is Military
To honor its God a city State often included a large temple called
What is a Ziggurat
Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What is the Hanging Gardens
These people devised a table for calculating division and multiplication.
Who are the Sumerians
Led a revolt against the Assyrians within a year he had forced the assyrians out of Uruk and was crowned king of Babylonia.
Who is Nabopolassar
In this era the Persians recognized the weakness of the Chaldeans. Name the Era
What is 539 BC
Sumerians first developed writing called
What is Cuneiform
A weapon that is used to throw stones or other objects
What is Slingshot
This invention help farmers grow crops in areas that would otherwise be dry and not suitable for farming.
What is Irrigation
conquered all of the peoples of Mesopotamia, creating the world’s first empire that lasted more than 200 years.
Who is Sargon
The rivers that occupy the fertile crescent is called?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers