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Empire Rulers
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100
A person who studies planets and stars.
Who is an astronomer?
100
This person was conquered both Akkad and Sumer and ruled the Mesopotamian Empire.
Who is Sargon?
100
This river flowed through the western side of Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
100
This was the Sumerian style of worship.
What is Polytheism?
100
This rebuilt city became the largest and richest city in the world.
What is Babylon?
200
A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire.
What is a territory?
200
This person ruled the Assyrian Empire.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
200
This city was located in Northern Mesopotamia.
What is Nineveh?
200
These were the most common roles for women in Sumerian society.
What is running households and raise children?
200
This story was written over 4000 years ago and is a long poem telling the story of a hero.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams.
What is irrigation?
300
This person was the ruler of the Old Babylonian Empire (1792 B.C).
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The people of Mesopotamia lived alongside rivers that flowed into this major body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
If you lived in Sumer, you most likely had this job.
What is a farmer?
300
These 2 bodies of water made it easy for the Chaldeans to become traders?
What are the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf?
400
A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
400
This person ruled the Chaldean Empire.
Who is Nabopolassar?
400
These were reasons Mesopotamian civilizations developed along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is water and farming/food?
400
This was probably the most significant contribution made by the Sumerians?
What is writing?
400
Mesopotamia was located in the eastern part of this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number camels.
What is a caravan?
500
He ruled the New Babylonian Empire.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
The name of this place means "land between the rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
500
These 4 ideas that are still used today came from the Sumerians.
What is the 60 minute hour, 60 second minute, 360 degree circle, and 12 month calendar?
500
The Chaldeans created one of the first of these to measure time.
What is a sundial?