WHERE IN THE WORLD?
In Ancient Mesopotamia, this major river is north of the Euphrates.
What is the Tigris River?
This Sumerian invention divided the year into 12 months using the phases of the moon.
What is the lunar calendar?
This system allows workers to specialize in particular jobs rather than everyone performing the same tasks.
What is division of labor?
The legendary Gilgamesh was probably based on a real king of this Sumerian city-state.
What is Uruk?
This Assyrian ruler created a famous library containing more than 30,000 clay tablets.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
This Persian transportation network extended for at least 1,600 miles and helped messages and officials travel across the empire.
What is the Royal Road?
The Code of Hammurabi contained approximately this many laws.
What is 282?
The Agricultural Revolution began in Southwest Asia approximately during this period.
What is 10,000–8000 BCE?
Which is larger, the fertile crescent or Mesopotamia?
What is the fertile crescent?
Cuneiform was originally developed mainly to record these practical economic transactions.
What are business records, taxes, and trades?
Irrigation helped Mesopotamian farmers produce more food than they immediately needed, creating this.
What is a food surplus?
Followers of Zoroastrianism worship this supreme god.
Who is Ahura Mazda?
The daughter of Sargon the Great, she is generally considered the oldest known named author in world history.
Who is Enheduanna?
Around 1100–1050 BCE, this Mediterranean trading civilization developed an influential alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Most Mesopotamian civilizations eventually developed this form of government ruled by a king.
What is a monarchy?
From the year 2026, the date 2000 BCE was approximately this many years ago.
What is 4,026 years ago?
This sea lies west of Mesopotamia and helped the Phoenicians build an extensive trading network.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This metal alloy, made from copper and tin, helped give an entire historical age its name.
What is bronze?
In ancient Sumer, a city and the surrounding territory formed this type of independent political unit.
What is a city-state?
This ancient epic tells the story of a superhuman Sumerian king who battles dangerous creatures and searches for immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This Persian ruler increased loyalty by allowing conquered peoples to keep many of their religions and customs.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Darius I helped administer his enormous empire by dividing it into this many provinces.
What is 20?
Instead of using coins, people using this economic system exchanged goods directly for other goods.
What is barter?
What language is the word 'Mesopotamia'?
What is Greek?
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopatamia?
The wheel, bronze, and writing developed in Mesopotamia, but this form of money did not.
What is paper money?
Mesopotamia lacked many important natural resources, making this activity with neighboring civilizations essential.
What is trade?
Known to the Sumerians as Inanna and to the Akkadians as Ishtar, this goddess was associated with these two powerful forces.
What are love and war?
Founded by Sargon, this Mesopotamian empire is often described as the first empire in world history.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
This famous Phoenician dye became associated with royalty because producing it from sea snails was extremely expensive.
What is Tyrian purple?
The word “Mesopotamians” can be misleading because the people of the region were not this.
What is one unified people or civilization?
Put these civilizations in chronological order: Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians.
What is Sumerians → Akkadians → Babylonians → Phoenicians → Assyrians → Persians?
This body of water lies southeast of Mesopotamia and Persians lived on and controlled its northern shore for over 2500 years.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Sumerian scribes pressed this simple tool into wet clay to create cuneiform symbols.
What is a reed stylus?
A pyramid showing kings and priests at the top, merchants and farmers below them, and enslaved people near the bottom represents this feature of ancient Sumer.
What is the social hierarchy?
Known as Utu to the Sumerians and Shamash to the Akkadians, this god was associated with these two concepts.
What are the sun and justice?
Of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Phoenicians, and Persians, this civilization eventually controlled the greatest amount of territory.
Who are the Persians?
This was the title given to a governor who administered a province of the Persian Empire.
What is a satrap?
Zoroastrianism was notable in the ancient world because it taught belief in essentially this number of supreme gods.
What is one? / What is monotheism?
This mountain range is located in modern-day Turkey and formed part of the northern geography of ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
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