He began the world's first empire by uniting all the city-states of Mesopotamia
Who was Sargon?
100
Economy of any government is based on this
What is trade?
100
Religion practiced by the Mesopotamians
What is polytheism?
100
Invention which helped farmer ready his fields
What is the plow?
200
How farmers got water to their crops
What are irrigation canals?
200
Hammurabi created this in order to have peace and justice in his land
What is Hammurabi's Code of Law
200
Mesopotamia is considered this type of society
What is agricultural?
200
Temples of Mesopotamia are called this
What is a ziggurat?
200
Invention which enabled people to move around with heavy loads more easily
What is the wheel
300
Why deserts are considered barriers/protection
What is they are hot, dry, subject to sandstorms, and have dangerous critters.
300
Explain a bi-cameral system
What is a government consisting of two houses. The upper house was made up of elders and the lower house of priests, scribes and artisans?
300
Mesopotamian/Sumerian writing is called this
What is cuneiform?
300
They were in charge of trade/the economy
Who were the priests?
300
All empirical leaders wished to accomplish this achievement
What is unification?
400
Why mountains are barriers/protection
What is the are steep, have treacherous paths, subject to landslides/avalanches, cold and have thin air up high
400
This caused the failure of Mesopotamia
What is disputes (civil wars) weakened the country leaving it open to invasion?
400
Aside from his famous Hanging Gardens, this leader built canals between the rivers to ease trade among the city-states.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
400
These were created by artisans in human likenesses and placed in temples to "pray"
What were statues of the people?
400
Assurbanipal's great achievement for Mesopotamia
What is the library at Nineveh?
500
Name the 6 geographical features of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Taurus and Zagros Mountains, the Arabian Desert and the Persian Gulf
500
What written laws do for the people
What is protect the welfare of the people, make justice visible to all, destroy wickedness and evil so the strong don't injure the weak and laws cannot be arbitrarily changed on a whim?
500
Who kept records and why/of what?
Who were the scribes? They kept records of business transactions (trade), taxes, the census, acreage, animals, crops, historical events and even wrote stories?
500
Mesopotamians spent their leisure time making music and doing this
What is playing a game such as senet?
500
Advanced city-states needed these two achievements in order to thrive