All about Empires
List the 4 Sumerian empires in order from earliest to latest.
What is Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Neo- Babylonian?
Name the first problem the Sumerian city states faced.
Describe the location of the Zargros mountains in relation to Mesopotamia.
What is slighty North East?
Name who wrote Cuneiform.
What is scribes?
Name what job specialization is and how it came about.
What is job specialization is when people had a surplus of food and didn't need everyone to farm or hunt/gather food. Because of this, people could specialize or concentrate on and become expert in a particular subject or skill?
Name who the Akkadian ruler was and one thing they are known for.
What is King Sargon and
military tactics
three dimensional sculptures
military formations
Name the problem the Sumerians faced that caused them to create irrigation systmems.
ELABORATE
What is the Sumerians had an uncontrollable water supply?
The rivers flooded Sumer, and it left behind good soil (with silt), however in winter there was too much snow and in the dry seasons, crops would die out
True or False: The Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet up before the Persian Gulf.
What is False?
Name what Cuneiform stands for.
What is wedge-shaped?
Name 2 ways farming changed lives.
What is:
Permanent Shelters
Surplus of Food (not everyone needed to work)
Surplus brought Job Specialization
Job Specialization brought Trade
Name how the Babylonians were defeated and 2 things they were known for.
What is the Babylonians were defeated because the Assyrian empire attacked and Hammurabi's line of rule stopped, and they were known for
Hammurabi's code (1 for 1)
being a center of trade
and being more fair to all classes and to women
What is:
city-states put up walls and even moats
farms were outside of these and the city was safe in the precautions?
Name where Egypt is in relation to Mesopotamia.
What is south west?
Name one way Cuneiform changed.
What is cuneiform was the first official writing system and one way it changed was
it evolved from 2,000 pictographs to 600 symbols, to 24 letters
it evolved from pictographs that stood for ideas or words to symbols that syllables or sounds then to letters
it evolved from intricate pictures, to somewhat simple symbols, to very simple letters.
List 5 characteristics of a Ziggurat.
What are: layering structure
religious temple,
dedicated to chief god of city,
found in the middle/heart of a Sumerian civilization,
they were so high so they could be closer to the gods (connecting life and heaven),
source of pride to citizens,
symbolized power and greatness
Name who ruled the Assyrians and 3 things they were known for.
What is many powerful Assyrian leaders ruled and they were known for
new weapons and strategies (iron weapons, the usage of horses, and siege)
aqueducts
2 dimensional sculptures called bas-reliefs
What caused the Sumerian city-states to work together?
Name 4 bodies of water in and near Mesopotamia.
Tigris River,
Euphrates River,
Persian Gulf,
Red Sea,
Black Sea,
Capsian Sea,
Mediterranean Sea,
What isCuneiform was stamped into clay with a reed stylus?
Name 4 Sumerian inventions/advancements in technology.
What is
Wheel
Sail
Writing System
Irrigation System
Plow
Potter's Wheel
Glass
Bronze
Name who the ruler of the Neo-Babylonians was, what 2 things they were known for were, and how they took over.
What is Nebuchadnezzar II, they took over by using the Assyrian's weaknesses to their advantages and attacking with a combined army, and they were known for
being skilled in math and astronomy
creating hanging gardens
safest empire
creating sundials
making the 60-minute hour and 7-day week
expanding the empire whenever possible
Name a problem (can't be irrigation) the Sumerians faced and name the solution.
Answer will vary.
Name all 6 cities in Sumer and which side they are located on, Example: ____ is on the west coast of Sumer.
What is: Babylon is on the west coast of Sumer. Uruk is on the west coast of Sumer. Ur is on the west coast of Sumer. Sippar is on the east coast of Sumer. Nippur is on the east coast of Sumer. Lagash is on the east coast of Sumer.?
Name the rotation of people who adopted Cuneiform. Example: Sumerians to Americans to _______
What is Sumerians to the Egyptians to the Phoenicians to the Greek to the Romans?
Name the 3 levels of Sumerian society and who is in them.
What is
Upper Class: rulers/kings, top officials, wealthy merchants, landowners and priests
Middle Class: farmers and skilled workers
Lower Class: slaves and prisoners of war