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100
The hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
Created the first civilization that had a great influence on history
Who are Sumerians?
100
A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
100
Mesopotamia means this in Greek
What is "The land between two rivers?"
100
The Assyrian Army consisted of this number of solders
What is 50,000?
200
Conquered all of the people of Mesopotamia and created the world's first empire
Who is Sargon?
200
People who studied the heavenly bodes
Who are astronomers?
200
A person who copies or writes our documents; often a record keeper
What is a scribe?
200
What two rivers was Mesopotamia located between
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
Sumerians developed a 12-month calendar by keeping record of this
What is the planets and stars?
300
Wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The largest class of people in the Sumerian social structure
What is middle class?
300
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
300
The Assyrian Empire spanned between these two bodies of water
What is the Persian Gulf and Nile River?
300
This was developed to help control flooding and dry summers
What is irrigation system?
400
Built the world's first library
Who is Ashurbanipal?
400
The group that rebelled against the Assyrians
Who are the Chaldeans?
400
A group of many different lands under one ruler
What is an empire?
400
The capital of the Assyrian Empire
What is Nineveh?
400
The Chaldean people were descendants from this previous empire
What is Babylonians?
500
Revolted against the Assyrians
Who is Nabopolassar?
500
The people that had mastered iron technology to support the Assyrian army
Who are the Hittites?
500
A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
What is a province?
500
Name three of the modern countries the Fertile Crescent includes?
What is Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan
500
Cuneiform consisted of this many characters
What is 1,200?