Geography
The names of the rivers on which the first known civilizations were built.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
The large temple located in the middle of the city states.
What is a ziggurat?
The name of the writing that the Sumerians used.
What is cuneiform?
The king of the Akkadian empire.
Who was Sargon?
The just ruler that created the first Babylonian Empire.
Who was Hammurabi?
The method the early Sumerians used to water their crops
What is irrigation?
Sumerians traded with other civilizations to get this
What is metal?
They were trained to read and write cuneiform.
Who are scribes?
The brutal army that had 50,000 soldiers, including infantry, cavalry and charioteers.
What is the Assyrian army?
The set of laws that says the punishment should match the seriousness of the crime.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The reason why the Sumerians needed to use irrigation.
What are the droughts in the summer and the floods in the winter?
These people were in the upper class.
Who are the kings, priests, warriors and government officials?
The hero of the first recorded epic.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The first Sumerian kings were this before they became kings.
What is war heroes?
People who study the sun, moon and stars.
Who are astronomers?
The nickname that historians gave to this area of curved farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The belief that there are many gods.
What is polytheism?
The very first library was located here
What is Ninevah?
The number of years that Sargon's empire lasted in Mesopotamia.
What is 200 years?
The group of people that rebelled against the Assyrians.
Who are the Chaldeans?
The modern day countries that are now located where the Fertile Crescent was once located.
What are Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan?
The role of women in Sumerian societies.
What is running the home, teaching their daughters to run the home, caring for children. Also had no civil rights?
Mathematical contributions made by the Sumerians.
What are the place value system based on 60 and a 12 month calendar?
These people from the north taught the Assyrians how to make iron stronger than tin to use for their weapons.
Who are the Hittites?
The king that made the Babylonia the largest and richest city in the world.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?