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The land between two rivers is known as...
What is the word Mesopotamia mean?
100
Kings
Who ruled Sumerian city-states?
100
The Babylonian Empire and his code of laws.
Who was Hammurabi and what was he most known for?
100
The land between 2 rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
What is cuneiform?
200
They didn't have enough land to grow food for the increasing number of people
Why where food shortages occurring in the Zagros foothills?
200
The top: Government officials, land owners, and priests Middle: Merchants and craftspeople Bottom: Slaves
What was the order of the social structure?
200
Akkadian-world's 1st empire Babylonian-code of laws Assyrian-Aqueducts Neo-Babylonian-Created 1st sundial
Know 1 achievement from each empire.
200
a city that is the center of government.
What is a capital?
200
symbol that starts for an object
What is pictograph?
300
1. uncontrolled water supply 2. maintain irrigation system 3. food shortages in the hills 4. attacks from neighboring communities
What are the 4 problems the Sumerians faced?
300
The gods.
Who selected the kings?
300
The world's 1st empire.
What did the Sargon create?
300
the use of tools and other inventions for practical use.
What is technology?
300
carved stones
What is a stele?
400
1. built levees and earth walls 2. worked together and became a city 3. people moved to the plains or Sumer 4. built strong walls
How did the Sumerians solve the 4 problems?
400
They fought with each other.
What problem did the city-states face?
400
Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian
What was the order each empire held power?
400
early city that was like a small, independent, country with its own laws and government.
What is a city-state?
400
a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
What is a levee?
500
They build walls.
What did Sumerians do while building their homes that helped to protect themselves from invaders?
500
The wheel
What was the most important invention?
500
The territory was too big.
What brought the Assyrian empire to end?
500
a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government.
What is an empire?
500
ancient Mesopotamia temple tower
What is a ziggurat?