Cuneiform was made up of these types of symbols, which represented different objects.
What are pictographs?
100
The Babylonians had the first one of these, which are still around today.
What is a postal service?
100
This man created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
100
Excerpts of Hammurabi's Code are displayed in this famous museum.
What is the Louvre, in Paris, France?
100
This was the main source of conflict amongst Sumerian-City States.
What is access to water?
200
In the Babylonian creation myth, what does Marduk ask the other Gods for in return for his help?
What is to be their undisputed ruler?
200
Under Hammurabi's code, if a builder built a shoddy house, and the house collapsed and killed the homeowner's wife, this would be the punishment.
What is the builder's wife would be killed?
200
Apart from using brute force and violence, the Assyrians used one other important strategy successfully against their enemies.
What is spread tales of their cruelty to strike fear in their enemies (propaganda)?
200
This is the modern day country in which the first Mesopotamian civilizations originated (hint: the land between two rivers).
What is Iraq?
200
Name one reason that the Persian Empire would have been a nice place to live for its citizens.
What is their tolerance of all religions, customs, etc.?
300
This is the type of writing surface that the Mesopotamians used.
What is a clay tablet?
300
Name one way in which Hammurabi helped Babylon to thrive economically.
What is he helped the city become an important center of trade, trading grain and cloth for precious metals and livestock?
300
Akkadian artists created three dimensional stone sculptures known as these.
What are steles?
300
The Tigris and Euphrates river were a good source of water, but were also difficult to live by for this reason.
What is their unpredictable flooding?
300
In order to make their territory easier to govern, the Persians divided their empire into regions known as this?
What are provinces?
400
This is the primary purpose of a creation myth.
What is to explain the origins of the Universe, Earth, and or human race?
400
Name two important achievements of the Neo-Babylonians.
What are "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon"; inventing the sundial; discoveries leading to the 60 minute hour and 7 day week.
400
This is the chief reason that both the Akkadian and Assyrian Empires crumbled.
What is they conquered more land than they could actually govern, which allowed opponents to gain power and eventually overthrow them?
400
These are two main purposes of Hammurabi's Code.
What are protecting the weak from the strong, making justice visible in the land, preserving order, maintaining obedience, and destroying wicked and evil? (Any two of these)
400
Name three major accomplishments of the Sumerians.
What are the plow, sailboat, wheel, and cuneiform?
500
This is the difference between a pictograph and an abstract letter.
What is a pictograph is a symbol that represents an objects, while abstract letters are symbols that represent sounds?
500
Name the three steps Nebuchadrezzar took to ensure the safety and protection of the city of Babylon.
What are build an inner and outer wall around the city, construct towers with archers to shoot enemy invaders, and finally build a moat around the outer walls?
500
Name the two main strategies that Assyrians developed to attack walled cities.
What are battering rams to smash through gates and moveable towers to hop over walls?
500
What are two aspects of Hammurabi's Code that have an important impact on American law today?
What are minimum wage, innocent until proven guilty, ability to divorce, having to prove case in court in front of a judge? (any of these two)
500
Name the three modern day continents into which the Persian Empire extended.