Empires & Civilizations
Reached its height during King Nebuchadnezzar’s reign
What is the Chaldean Empire?
This group of people could be disowned or sold into slavery for disobeying or disrespecting their parents.
What are children?
The main job of the Mesopotamians
What is agriculture or farming?
The curved area from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea known for its fertile
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The wedge-shaped writing of the Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
1st to make iron weapons
What is the Hittite Empire?
These people were educated in Mesopotamia
What is wealthy boys?
Different levels of a culture into which people are divided
What are social classes?
A pyramid-like structure that was used as a shrine to the gods with a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
A way of supplying water to an area of land or crops
What is irrigation?
One of the earliest civilizations after the Flood
What is Ur?
Another name for skilled craftsmen
What are artisans?
A long poem that tells the story of a hero
What is an epic?
A city and the surrounding land and villages that is controls
What is a city-state?
A trading system where people exchange goods without money
What is bartering?
Capital was Ninevah
What was the Assyrian Empire?
The king of the Amorites who wrote a set of 282 laws based on retaliation and severe penalties for offenders
Who was Hammurabi?
Merchants used these to sign business deals with each other
What are cylinder seals?
A group of lands under one government
What is an empire?
Raised areas of earth that held back flood waters to help protect crops
What are levees?
Founded by Sargon the Great
What was the Akkadian Empire?
One the the ancient wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, were built for this person
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar's wife?
Name three mathematical or scientific ideas that the Sumerians came up with that we still use today
What are the concept of zero, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 360 degree circle, astronomy, 12-month calendar?
The four steps of how a city-state grew
What is farms, villages, cities, city-states?
The fighting technique where the soldiers march in a square to help protect each other
What is a phalanx?