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Vocabulary
Empires
Daily life/Religion
Inventions
Rulers
100
This is a set of letters that can be combined to form words.
What is the alphabet?
100
This empire was home to the world's first civilization.
What is the Sumerian empire?
100
These are the duties of women during that time.
What is to take care of the children and home.
100
This Sumerian invention was the world's first system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
This ruler is known for being the first to have a permanent army.
Who is Sargon?
200
This is a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle.
What is a chariot?
200
This empire is mentioned throughout the Bible. Their most famous ruler was Hammurabi.
What is the Babylonian empire?
200
These people made up the middle class, just below priests and kings.(You can name one in the group)
What are Craftspeople, nobles, & scribes
200
This is a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle.
What is a chariot?
200
This ruler is most famous for creating the world's first written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
This word means to worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
This empire was known for using the chariot to move quickly around the battlefield firing arrows at their enemies.
What are the Hittites?
300
Name the major Mesopotamian gods. You can get 100 points for each one you can name.
Enlil, Enki, and Shamash
300
This important Sumerian invention that was pulled by oxen, greatly increased farm production.
What is a plow?
300
This ruler is a legendary figure in Sumerian literature because he had several epics written about him.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
This consisted of a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state.
400
This empire became verywealthy by trading cedar trees but their biggest accomplishment was developing the world's first alphabet.
What is the Phoenician empire?
400
This group of people made up the class below the middle class, but they were not at the bottom of the social classes.
Who are traders, farmers, and laborers?
400
This Sumerian invention that was used on carts and wagons, was one of the most important developments of all time and still impacts the world today.
What is the wheel?
400
This is the most famous Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
This is the division of society by rank or class.
What is social hierarchy?
500
This empire was not home to the world'd first civilization, but it was the world's first empire and Sargon was its ruler.
What is the Akkadian empire?
500
Name all of social classes in order. There are four. You must know all four to get any points.
1. kings and priests 2. Craftspeople ,nobles, scribes 3. Traders, farmers, laborers 4. slaves
500
Name two other inventions not listed on your study guide or get 250 points for each one you can name.
possible answers: sewers, calendar, clock, cylinder seals
500
This ruler's daughter was the first known female writer in history.
Who is Sargon?