Geography
This is a benefit of the often-destructive floodwaters of Mesopotamia...
What is silt?
The belief in many gods.
What is ploytheism?
The sixth king of Babylon.
Hammurabi
The Greek's named the Phoenicians this.
What is the "purple dye people"?
The name of the 1500-mile-long road built by Darius I.
What is the Royal Road?
Mesopotamia is located in this present-day country...
What is Iraq?
This is what Sumerians placed in ziggurats.
What is votive statues?
The number of Code of Laws.
What is 282?
This gave the Assyrian army an advantage over their enemies.
What is iron weapons?
What is horse-drawn chariots?
What is using bows and arrows on horseback?
The number of provinces Darius divided the Persian Empire into.
What is 20?
The geography of Mesopotamia helped create the conditions for this to develop.
What is civilization?
This was at the top of the ziggurat.
What is a shrine (sacred place)?
What is their deity (god)?
What are priests?
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The name of the city-state where Sargon the Great was raised.
What is Kish?
The name of the most famous Chaldean king.
What is Nebuchadnezzar II?
Before Cyrus the Great, the Persians were ruled by a people called this.
What is Medes?
The approximate year Sumer became a civilization.
3500 BC
According to the social class system, this group of people was under scribes
What are warriors?
Civilization changed with Hammurabi's laws for this reason.
What is they were displayed for everyone to see?
The name of one of the Wonders of the Ancient World from Mesopotamia.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
The name of Darius I's new capital city.
What is Persepolis?
The location in Mesopotamia where the Chaldeans originally came from.
What is southern Babylon?
What is southern Mesopotamia?
Name of the world's oldest recorded story.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
The approximate year Sargon the Great took control and established the Akkadian Empire.
(within 20 years)
What is 2334 BC?
(Accept: 2354 to 2314 BC)
This is the Phoenician's most important export.
What is its culture?
Using roads, messengers of Darius's government could communicate with any province within this number of days.
What is 15?