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Geography of the Fertile Crescent
Sumer
Assyria and Babylonia
Daily Life in Babylonia
Grab Bag
100
Mesopotamian farmers depended on these two rivers to help irrigate their crops.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
A large building that stood in the center of town. It was a large building with a temple at its peak.
What is a ziggurat?
100
This king ruled the southern Mesopotamian city of Babylon.
Who was Hammurabi?
100
This beautiful gateway is the northern entrance to the city of Babylon. It honors the Sumerian goddess of love and war.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
100
This civilization was one of the first to develop writing.
What is Sumer?
200
The watering of land with canals or pipes.
What is irrigation?
200
One of the first writing systems invented. It was used by the people of Sumer to record laws, letters, records, and riddles.
What is cuneiform?
200
A raised waterway.
What is an aqueduct?
200
A canal used for protection.
What is a moat?
200
This city was famous for its "Hanging Gardens."
What is Babylon?
300
This means "land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
300
The belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
300
A group of lands and peoples ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
300
This is how King Nebuchadnezzar paid for the great city of Babylon.
What is he collected taxes from every free Babylonian?
300
The capital city of Assyria.
What was Nineveh?
400
An elevated flatland.
What is a plateau?
400
This ruler was famous for uniting the independent city-states of Sumer and expanding into present-day Syria.
Who was Sargon?
400
This is how Hammurabi joined the old city-states as far north as Ashur and Nineveh.
What is by damming the Euphrates to control the water supply?
400
Money collected by a government.
What is a tax?
400
The Tigres and Euphrates Rivers brought these valuable resources to the people of the Fertile Crescent.
What are water and rich soil?
500
Long periods of dry weather.
What is a drought?
500
Schools were built in Sumer to teach writing to a few chosen boys. This name was given to those who learned to write.
What is a scribe?
500
The capital city of Babylonia.
What was Babylon?
500
These three traditions, used by the Babylonian civilization that shaped life for the Mesopotamians, were borrowed from the Sumerians.
What are writing, literature, and religion?
500
This king created the first code of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?