Famous People
These people grew powerful more through trade than through the winning of battles...
Who are the Phoenicians?
Crops grew well in Mesopotamia because the floods brought this natural resource to the farmland...
What is silt?
The term Mesopotamia means...
What is, Land between the rivers?
The wheel, writing, plow, and calendar where all examples of Sumerian developed ___________?
What are technologies?
What is a surplus?
These people were among the first to use iron weapons and chariots in battle...
Who are the Hittites and Assyrians?
These two rivers aided in the development and make-up of Mesopotamia...
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
An independent state that consist of the city and the surrounding area is know as this...
What is a City-State?
The Phoenecians developed an alphabet that used symbols and letters that represented this...
What is sounds?
Materials that are sent out of a country to be sold/traded are referred to as...
What are exports?
This famous Chaldean monarch rebuilt Babylon and built the famous "Hanging Gardens"...
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The region that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranian Sea is known as...
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A state containing several countries of territories under the authority of a single ruler or government is called this...
What is an empire?
This set of 282 laws are considered the earliest written laws of early civilizations...
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Raw materials brought into a country are referred to as...
What are imports?
He was one of the first leaders to have a permanent army...
Who is Sargon I?
These landforms supported permanent settlements and led to the rise of early civilizations...
What are rivers?
The idea that everyone, rich and poor, powerful and weak, must obey the law is known as...
What is rule of law?
This is the first type of writing that was invented by the Sumerians?
What is cuneiform?
B.C.E. on a timeline stands for this...
What is "Before Common Era"?
This leader was considered a god by his people and created the world's first written set of laws...
Who is Hammurabi?
In this region Mesopotamians were able to use tin and copper to create a new metal/alloy called this...
What is bronze?
The belief in more than one god is known as...
What is polytheism?
This revolution freed up time for specilization of specific job and led to the division of labor...
What is the agricultural revolution?
A pyramid, mud-like structure that was used as a religious temple/gathering place in early Mosopotamia was called this...
What is a ziggurat?