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Sumer
Akkad
Assyria
Babylon
100
B.C.
What is the abbreviation for Before Christ?
100
the southern part of Mesopotamia
What is where Sumer is located in Mesopotamia?
100
located in northern part of Mesopotamia
What is Akkad?
100
Ashurbanipal built one at Nineveh
What is a library?
100
A set of 282 laws
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
BCE
What is the abbreviation for Before the Common Era?
200
the worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
200
another name for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
rivers that ran through Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
a garden hanging at the top of palace walls
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
300
CE
What is the abbreviation for In the Common Era?
300
A place in which people live that has its own government, rulers, laws, and artisans.
What is a city state?
300
a leader who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule
Who is Sargon the Great?
300
An Assyrian war tool that reduced palace walls to rubble
What is a battering ram?
300
A king of Babylon who finished building the great ziggurat
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
400
AD
What is the abbreviation for Anno Domini?
400
The story of a legendary Sumerian king?
What is Gilgamesh?
400
a ruling family
What is a dynasty?
400
what the Assyrians placed a high value on
What is conquest
400
to pay for construction projects and to support Hammurabi's large army
Why did people pay taxes?
500
4-7 BCE
What is the birth date of Christ?
500
a temple that has stacked rectangular platforms
What is a ziggurat?
500
A Greek name given to Mesopotamia
What is the "Land between two rivers?"
500
what the Assyrians were known for being
who are warriors
500
damming a waterway and releasing it to flood a city
What was one of Hammurabi's military strategies?