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Environment
Culture
Leadership
Trade
Mixed Bag
100
floods and droughts
What is a disadvantage of the Mesopotamian plain
100
a walled city and surrounding farmland
What is a city/state?
100
Sargon
Who is the leader of the Akkadians who conquered the Sumerians. (first empire)
100
Commomly traded goods of the Sumerians and Assyrians
What are timbers, grains and metals
100
clay bricks
What is the material the people of Mesopotamia (Sumerians, Chaldeans, Assyrians) used to make their buildings.
200
cisterns and irrigation canals
What is the methods used by the Sumerians to manage water issues.
200
Marduk
What is the chief god of Babylon (Chaldean)
200
Babylonian law maker - criminal, civil, family and economic laws
Who is Hammurabi (1792 - 1750 BC)
200
smelting
What is mixing of copper and tin to make bronze
200
a poem about a hero
What is an epic?
300
surplus food (grain)
What is population growth for the Sumerians and freed up farmers to do other jobs.
300
Ziggurat location and function
What is the centre of a city/state and a royal palace/ place for royals and elite to pray
300
Sargon II
Who is the leader of the Assyrians?
300
levees
What is the control of flood waters
300
monotheism polytheism
What is a belief in one god? What is a belief in many gods?
400
Fertile Crescent
What is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
400
Stylus
What is wedge-shaped reed used for writing and making cuneiform text.
400
King Cyrus
Who is the Persian king to take Babylon?
400
Royal Road
What is Persian road that ran 1500 miles from Sardis to Susa
400
used by Sumerians like a signature
What is a cylinder seal?
500
Persian Gulf
What is body of water into which both the Tigris and Euphrates River flows?
500
Ashur
What is Assyrian god? Ashurism is the religion.
500
Ruled Persia at its peek.
Who is Darius
500
Purple cloth
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
sailors and Lebanon
Who are the Phoenicians