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Empire Strikes Back
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Gods and Men
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100
Hammurabi's Empire name.
What is Babylonian?
100
This Sumerian invention helped bring water to crops.
What is irrigation?
100
This word means the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Mesopotamia definition in Greek.
What is "the land between the rivers"
100
Color of the dye that the Phoenicians harvested and sold.
What is Purple?
200
Main difference between Empires and city states.
What is an empire is united by one ruler who conquered lands. City states are independent and share culture, but not leaders, or laws
200
This contribution assisted with record keeping.
What is writing?
200
Name two responsibilities of Mesopotamian leaders.
What are maintained irrigation systems and city walls; led armies into war, kept gods happy, employed officials.
200
Name of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Name one of the two Mediterranean civilizations we studied.
Who are the Phoenicians or Israelites?
300
Name of the first Mesopotamian Empire
What is the Akkadian Empire?
300
This 282 item list brought back order in society.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
Mesopotamian religious temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
300
Mesopotamia's modern day country.
What is Iraq?
300
Locations along the coast of the Mediterranean, controlled by the Phoenicians.
What is are colonies?
400
This Empire ended the city-state era.
Who are the Kassites?
400
Built for the wife of a King to make her feel less homesick.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
400
Leader of the first Mesopotamian Empire.
Who is Sargon II?
400
Description of the climate of Mesopotamia.
What is hot with little precipitation?
400
Other than purple dye, this was the main job of most Phoenicians.
What is shipbuilding or sea trading?
500
Hittite Empire was known for mastering this type of technology.
What is iron.
500
Mastered by the Phoenicians, not purple dye or shipbuilding.
What is glassblowing?
500
Leader of the second Babylonian Empire.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
Definition of Alluvial Plain.
What is low flat land good for farming, formed between rivers.
500
Modern day country where Phoenicia is located.
What is Lebanon.