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Sumer
Akkad
Babylon
Assyria
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100
Sumer had over this many gods
What is 3000?
100
Akkad was the world's first _____________
What is an empire?
100
The city at the center of the Babylonian Empire
What is Babylon?
100
The success of the Assyrian Empire was due mostly to this
What is a powerful military?
100
Mesopotamia was the world's first example of this
What is civilization?
200
Sumer was organized into these, each with their own governments and gods
What is a city-state?
200
Akkad was located in this part of Mesopotamia
What is northern Mesopotamia?
200
The ruler of the first Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The Assyrians spoke the same language as this former empire
What is the Babylonian?
200
Mesopotamia means this
What is "land between two rivers"?
300
The Sumerian form of writing
What is cuneiform?
300
The ruler of the Akkadian empire
Who is Sargon I?
300
Hammurabi created this by adopting ideas from various city-states that he conquered
What is the code of laws?
300
The Assyrians were able to make stronger iron weapons because of this process
What is smelting?
300
The two rivers the bordered Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
Name three major Sumerian inventions
What is wagon wheel, sailboat, geometry, etc.?
400
The Akkadian empire lasted this many years before falling to invaders
What is 200 years?
400
The other name for the Neo-Babylonian Empire
What is Chaldean?
400
After attacking a city the Assyrians would do this
What is burn it down?
400
The process of digging canals and building dams to artificially reroute rivers and water crops.
What is irrigation?
500
The oldest known recorded story from Sumer
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The year that Sargon I created the Akkadian Empire
What is 2340 B.C.?
500
The name of the Neo-Babylonian King who built the hanging gardens of Babylon
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
The Assyrians had to form a powerful military because their native land had a lack of this
What is natural protection?
500
Two major crops grown in Mesopotamia
What are barley and dates?