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Empires
Potpourii
100
A person or group of people that do not have a home, they survive by following herds of animals and by hunting and gathering.
What is a nomad
100
A scientist who observes and studies the universe beyond the earth, including the moon, planets, and stars and their motions.
What is Astronomer
100
Name the two rivers around Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
100
Who was the 1st rule of the 1st Empire
Who is Sargon of Akkad
100
A long poem about a hero
What is an Epic
200
Type of writing that was made using a wedge shaped stylus and written on clay tablets
What is Cuneiform
200
Compare and Contrast a Plain and a Plateau
Both are areas of flat land, a plateau is a RAISED area of flat land.
200
Describe the physical features of Mesopotamia
What is flat arid land with few resources. **Extra Credit** the North was a Plateau, the South was a Plain
200
How did Sargon of Akkad and Shamshi-Adad take control/ grow their empire
Through military force
200
Why did people in Mesopotamia need to trade?
They lacked necessary resources like metal and wood
300
A picture that stands for a word of idea; picture writing
What is pictographs
300
True/ False. Hammurabi's Code allowed rulers to freely punish criminals
False: Hammurabi's Code made laws public so that every one new the rules; it was the first attempt to develop a fair set of rules/ punishments.
300
What did ancient Mesopotamians do to their environment to make survival easier
What is built canals, ditches, irrigation systems
300
How did Adad-Nirari’s, Nebuchadnezzar, and Tiglath-Pileser’s policies backfire and cause their downfall?
Their policies of treating people with force, dislocating concurred people, stealing from and taxing people cause people to stand up and overthrow these rulers.
300
**DAILY DOUBLE** Nebuchadnezzar build a famous garden, what was this garden called
What is "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon"
400
Define Code
What is an organized set of laws or rules
400
True/ False: Artisans held high positions as administrators in the City-states.
What is False- Artisans are workers who are skilled at making something by hand Administrators are managers or someone who directs a government or organization
400
Describe the Mesopotamian Religion
What is Polytheism, the belief in many gods; they believed their gods were like people, they needed to eat, sleep, and had emotions.
400
Compare/ Contrast Sargon and Shamshi-Adad’s strategies of controlling people to Hammurabi’s.
What is all 3 used force but Hammurabi actually considered his peoples' thoughts/ feelings resulting in the development of Hammurabi's code
400
Compare/ Contrast Nomads and Exiles
What is Both are away from home, Nomads choose to travel whereas exiles are forced out of their homelands
500
Define Scribe
What is a professional writer or record keeper; a person whose job is to copy documents and manuscripts
500
Compare/ contrast an Empire and City-state
Both are self-governing; City-states are independent while Empires are made up of many cities and nations
500
What is a Sumerian invention that we still use today
What is the wheel
500
**DAILY DOUBLE**Cyrus the Great came from Persia and conquered which empire?
What is New Babylonia
500
Who was the famous King who defeated the monster Huwawa
Who is King Gilgamesh