Vocabulary
A large area governed by one ruler
Empire
He created a set of laws for the Babylonians with "eye for an eye" type punishments
Hammurabi
They were the inventors and had a group of independent city-states
Sumerians
The style of writing invented by the Sumerians
Cuneiform
Mesopotamia means the land between these 2 rivers
Euphrates River and Tigris River
A person who studies the stars and planets
Astronomers
The leader who created the first empire with the Akkadians
Sargon
This group created the first empire
Akkadians
Mesopotamian leaders often claimed they got their power to rule from these
The Gods
Sumer was located near this major body of water
Persian Gulf
A belief in more than one god
Polytheism
A war hero who had an epic written about his life
Gilgamesh
This group created the first set of written laws
Babylonians
This is the reason the Hanging Gardens were built
Because Nebuchadnezzar's wife missed the mountains of her homeland
Name one advantage and one disadvantage of Mesopotamian flooding
Advantages: brought fertile soil (silt) and water to the area
Disadvantages: destructive, violent, washed away homes, crops, animals
A smaller area that is part of a larger empire
Province
The leader of the Assyrians
Ashurbanipal
This group had a fierce army, forced tribute, used iron weapons and siege towers
Assyrians
Mesopotamia mostly used this type of government with one supreme ruler, such as a king
monarchy
These are the modern countries of the Fertile Crescent
Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan
Scribe
He was the leader of the Chaldeans who led the defeat of the Assyrians
Nabopolassar
This group defeated the Assyrians and was later taken over by the Persians; Hanging Garden; Ishtar Gate
Chaldeans/Neo-Babylonians
War heroes in Mesopotamia were sometimes recognized in these 2 ways
Having an epic written about them or becoming king of a city-state
Babylon was built along this water feature
Euphrates River