Vocabulary Part 1
A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland.
Fertile Crescent
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
Empire
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
Monarch
______________ are examples of their achievements. (looking for 3 answers)
The wheel, plow, and writing (a system which we call cuneiform)
T or F Hammurabi was a priest
false
Type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
Division of Labor
One of Uruk’s kings that became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Gilgamesh
______was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia’s farmland fertile.
Irrigation
What two advantages did the Hittites have over their opponents?
incredibly flexible core infantry and their superior training.
T or F Hammurabi’s code was a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
True
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
Silt
The division of society by rank or class.
Social Hierarchy
____________________________ and ____________________________ were reasons why farmers needed to develop a system to control their water supply.
Flooding and Droughts
How did the division of labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamian civilization?
People developed expertise outside of farming, large scale projects were completed and laws and government needed to carry out such projects were developed.
T or F Hammurabi’s code revealed equality between the social classes in Babylonian society because all ranks/classes would receive the same punishment for a crime
False the punishments depended upon each person’s social class.
Human-made waterways.
Canals
The world’s first system of writing.
Cuneiform
_______ served as the link between the Sumerians and the gods.
Baru
Define the differences between rural and urban.
An urban area includes the city itself, as well as the surrounding areas. Rural areas, often called "the country," have low population density and large amounts of undeveloped land.
T or F It is not important to have written laws.
False it is very important
Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it.
City-state
A pyramid-shaped temple tower.
Ziggurat
___________was the first ruler to have a permanent army and established the world’s first empire.
King Sargon of Akkad
______________was the Phoenicians’ most important achievement.
Phonetic Alphabet
Is this the correct Fertile Crescent Empires
Sumer
Hittites
Kassites
Phoenicia
Assyrians
Chaldeans
Babylon
True