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Vocabulary
Fertile Crescent
Sumer
Assyria & Babylonia
Life in Babylonia
100
a canal used for protection.
What is a moat?
100
the land between the Tigris and Euphrates River.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Sumer's writing system.
What is cuneiform?
100
This king was famous for his code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
King Nebuchadnezzar used these to pay for the building of Babylon.
What are taxes?
200
a system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
the rivers brought these two gifts to the people of the Fertile Crescent.
What are water and soil?
200
He was famous for uniting the Sumer city-states.
Who was Sargon?
200
The capital of Babylonia.
What is Babylon?
200
Babylon is famous for these.
What are its hanging gardens?
300
the watering of lands with canals or pipes.
What is irrigation?
300
the farmers developed this method to bring water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
300
a large building with a temple at its peak found in the center of the city.
What is a ziggurat?
300
The capital of Assyria.
What is Nineveh?
300
These people built the canals, roads, and buildings of Babylon.
Who are the prisoners of war?
400
group of lands ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
400
long periods of dry weather.
What is a drought?
400
These were built in Sumer to teach writing.
What are schools?
400
This city used terrifying methods of warfare to gain control of lands.
What is Assyria?
400
These people paid taxes.
Who were all free people?
500
a raised waterway.
What is an aqueduct?
500
This area of Mesopotamia became famous for its fertile fields.
What is Southern Mesopotamia?
500
the belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
500
King Hammurabi did this to unite the city-states by controlling the water supply.
What is dam the Euphrates?
500
Babylonia had rich traditions of:
What are writing, literature, and religion?