This is why the ancient Sumerians build with bricks made from mud.
What is there was a lot of it?
100
Who is the guy who took control of Sumer, building the Akkadian Empire in the Fertile Crescent?
Who is Sargon?
100
Tell why Assyrians were feared by their enemies. (Give at least 2 reasons)
What is they were powerful and cruel. Those who were captured were sent into exile. Enemy leaders were killed and cities were burned. Enemies who resisted were killed or enslaved.
200
Mountain rain and melting snow swelled rivers carrying soil to __________ and deposited ____________, which made land fertile and good for crops.
What are "floodplain" and "silt"?
200
The rise of what allowed people to settle in villages?
What is agriculture?
200
This is the rold that gods played in Sumerian society.
What is they protected people from trouble and danger?
200
King Sargon got real old, told his sons to take the throne... but the huge Akkadian empire would fall out of their control. Who took over after that?
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Assyrians chose these people to rule their conquered lands.
What are governors?
300
What are the two extreme weather conditions that farmers had to deal with?
What are floods and drought?
300
This is the reason why early Mesopotamians invented the world's first system of writing.
What is in order to keep records of things (such as food).
300
How did people become slaves in Sumer? (Name a least two)
What are war prisoners, orphans, poor children and people who owed debts?
300
Name one of the two types of people that Hammurabi appointed to help control his lands.
Who were governors, tax collectors, or judges?
300
Conquered rulers had to pay this... as payment for army's protection.
What is tribute?
400
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia arose in the region where this country is today.
What is Iraq?
400
This was the Sumerian's largest and most important building.
What is the ziggurat (Sumerian temple)?
400
What were some of the early inventions in Sumer? (Name at least 2)
What are plows, the wheel, potters wheels, and bronze tools.
400
Why were Hammurabi's codes created?
What is to end personal revenge and provide protection and justice?
400
Tiny Persian kingdoms succeeded due to this.
What is trade?
500
What did Mesopotamians do in order to get the resources they needed?
What is they traded their surplus grain to get what they needed.
500
Sumerians had a religion based on this -- also known as the belief in many gods or godessess.
What is polytheism?
500
This was the reason why cuneiform was developed.
What is in order to keep records?
500
The Babylonian Empire was replaced by which empire?
What is the Assyrian Empire?
500
Darius formed provinces and appointed these in order to improve government