Important Events
This battle between Athens and Persia is also where the 27-mile long running event gets its name, inspired by the story of a messenger who sprinted from this place to Athens to warn them.
What is Marathon?
This code was put in place by the ruler of Babylon, it set out clear crimes and punishments for those who violated it, including losing your hands for theft, or an eye for poking someone else's out.
These landforms are created by the impact of two continental plates, causing the land to raise up on the edges.
What are mountains?
What is a government?
The capital city of the Neo-Babylonian and Babylonian empires.
What is Babylon?
This empire was known for being brutal conquerors, they would often punish people who didn't surrender by maiming, flaying, impalement, or occasionally beheading.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
These rivers provided Mesopotamia with the water and nutrients which made them fertile and allowed them to be the first civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Gladiators, politicians, poets, and social classes in general can demonstrate that a civilization has this.
What is a social structure?
The hot gates, where Persia and Sparta battled in a narrow pass.
What is the Neo-Babylonian empire?
The __________ Gardens of Babylon were built by king Nebuchadnezzar II for one of his wives, who missed the plant life of her old home.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
These landforms are created when a piece of land is surrounded on three sides with water, with the fourth being connected to a larger landmass.
Chariots, plows, and other inventions which help to make life easier demonstrate that a civilization has this.
What is technology/technological advances?
The capital city of Persia was this city, literally translating to "Persian City".
What is Persepolis?
This empire was founded by Cyrus when he rebelled against his overlords in the Median empire, then conquered them and their neighbors.
What is the Persian Empire?
Mesopotamians (aside from the Persians) believed in multiple gods, including Marduk, Ishtar, and Nergal, making them this kind of religion.
What is polytheistic?
The area of Mesopotamia was located primarily in this modern day country.
What is Iraq/Syria?
Because of the need for a stable food supply, early civilizations often formed around these.
What are rivers?
The ruler of the Persian empire during the first invasion of Greece.
Who is Darius?
This battle between the Spartans and Persians ended in the death of every Spartan, but stalled the Persians so other Greeks could prepare.
This religion, which was followed by the Persians, was monotheistic, meaning they believed in one god, named Ahura Mazda, led by the prophet Z____________.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Due to its good soil and high amount of farms, Mesopotamia was also called the ___________ crescent.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamia's system of religion was this, meaning they believed in many gods.
What is polytheistic/polytheism?
The Spartan king who died at the battle of Thermopylae.
Who is Leonidas?