Vocabulary
This term can be defined as a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire.
What is province?
This Mesopotamian ruler was King of Babylon and is credited with writing the world's first code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Mesopotamia is located on this continent.
What is Asia?
This was the world's first civilization.
What is Sumer?
Mesopotamians worshiped in this, which was a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
This term can be defined as a belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
This Mesopotamian ruler was King of the Chaldeans, and is known for rebuilding Babylon and constructing the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, among other things.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
This is the literal meaning of the word mesopotamia.
What is "the land between the rivers"?
These city-states were in Sumer. (Must name at lest 2 correctly to get points.)
What are Ur, Uruk, Eridu, and/or Babylon?
The Assyrians were known particularly for this.
What is a well-trained army?
This term can be defined as a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper.
What is scribe?
This Mesopotamian ruler was Akkadian and created the world's first empire.
Who was Sargon?
The world's first civilizations, which developed in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, all had this in common.
What is "developed along/near river valleys"?
The Sumerians developed this, which is a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay.
What is cuneiform?
This was the biggest factor to Assyrian military success.
What is "use of iron tools"?
This term can be defined as a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams.
What is irrigation?
This Mesopotamian ruler was King of Assyria and is credited with building one of the world's first libraries at Nineveh.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
Most of Mesopotamia was situated in between these two rivers. (Must name both correctly to get points.)
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Sumerians are credited with creating these four major advancements in human history. (Must name all 4 for points.)
What are writing, technology, math, and astronomy?
This Mesopotamian city was made the capital of the Chaldean Empire.
What is Babylon?
This term can be defined as a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender.
What is tribute?
This Mesopotamian king overthrew the Assyrians and with his son, built the New Babylonian Empire.
Who is Nabopolassar?
The Fertile Crescent was a very fertile, curved strip of farmland that extended from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf and included area that is today these countries. (Must answer 5 out of the possible 6 to get points.)
What are Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel and/or Jordan?
These are the six levels of the Sumerian Social Pyramid. (YOU MUST NAME ALL SIX IN CORRECT ORDER, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, FOR POINTS!)
What are kings, priests, government officials/scribes, merchants/traders, farmers/laborers, and slaves?
Following the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Mesopotamia started to experience these three things, which ultimately lead to its takeover by the Persians. (Must answer all three correctly for points!)
What are weak kings, poor harvests, and slow trade?