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Geography of the Fertile Crescent
Inventions
This and That
Life in Mesopotamia
Warfare
100
Meaning the Land Between Two Rivers
What is Mesopotamia
100
A city and all the country-side that surrounds it.
What is City-State
100
The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a certain task or job
What is Division of Labor
100
This was the most common way people traded in Mesopotamia
What is By water / on waterways
100
This tool / weapon made it easier to invade by destroying city walls
What is the Battering Ram
200
These are the two rivers located in the Fertile Crescent
What is Tigris and Euphrates
200
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
What is an Empire
200
A pyramid-shaped temple tower
What is ziggurat
200
Sumerian metalworkers were the first to use this metal
What is Iron
200
Artwork that showed important battle scenes was carved into stone and was called this...
What is a victory stele
300
A mixture of rich soils and tiny rocks that are good for farming.
What is silt
300
People who performed religious ceremonies in Sumer
What is a priest
300
This empire was among the first to use soldiers armed with bows and arrows
What is Assyria
300
The people that were in charge of building and making crafts, buildings, ships, etc. were called this...
What is Artisans
300
city walls that protected each empire were made out of this material
What is mud-brick
400
Growing more crops than you need, allows for trade
What is a surplus
400
The world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform?
400
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life in Babylon
What is Hammurabi's Code
400
Only this class of people were allowed in the top level of the ziggurat
What are Priests
400
Babylon was a target of invasion because of its beauty and culture, its main feature was called this
What is Hanging Gardens
500
The three seas that surround the Fertile Crescent
What is The Persian Gulf, The Mediterranean sea, Red Sea
500
Waterways used to bring water from the rivers to the farms
What are canals
500
The Empire that created the Alphabet
What is the Phoenicians
500
This tool made farming much easier for Mesopotamians
What is the Plow
500
This new warfare tactic was created by the Akkadians and their leader Sargon
What is the siege