Vocabulary
The land along and between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia or the Fertile Cresent?
The name of the bible character who lived in the area of Sumner at the time.
Who is Abraham?
The name for the capital city of Assyria that also appears in the bible.
What is Ninevah?
The empire that made a plow with a metal tip.
Who were the Chaldeans?
study of the stars and planets.
What is Astrology?
The name for the land that became modern-day Iraq.
What is Mesopotamia?
A group of people that the laws of Assyria, unfortunately, did not protect.
Who were women?
The empire that made a network of roads.
Who were the Persians?
Money or property that a woman brings to her husband when she marries him.
What is a dowry?
The name of the city that Abraham lived in.
What is UR?
The name of the laws the Babylonians made.
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
A famous thing Nebuchadnezzar 2 became known for making.
What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
An ancient temple in the shape of a pyramid with stepped levels.
What is a zigguraut?
The name of the math the Sumerians invented.
What is Geometry?
The year the Babylonians rose to power.
What was 1800 BC?
The Persians permitted this group of people to return to their homeland.
Who were the Hebrews?
Wedge-shaped characters used in the writings of ancient civilizations.
What is cuneiform?
The name of the first king of Sumner who established a military tradition in the area.
Who was Sargon I?
The year the Assyrians rose to power.
What was 730 BC?
The name for the idea that a person could inherit the monarchy.
What is the divine right of kings?