Mesopotamia & Sumeria
The area from Mesopotamia through the Levant and up the Nile is called this because of its shape.
The Babylonian king who brought all of Mesopotamia into his empire.
Hammurabi
A 1,700-mile road that united the Persian empire.
Royal Road
The largest Mesopotamian empire (and, by the 6th century BC, the largest empire the world had ever seen).
Persian/Achaemenid Empire
James Bond's code name.
007
This place means "place between the rivers."
Mesopotamia
The extensive code of laws that was written in public for all Babylonians to see.
Hammurabi's Code
The first king of the Persian empire.
Cyrus II
The Phoenicians most important achievement was the _____ alphabet, or a consonant-only alphabet.
abjad
What is the largest country in the world?
Russia
The first civilization, made up of city-states (including Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kippur, and Kish), that arose in Mesopotamia.
Sumeria
A large building project that planted plants on the edges of terraced walls to make them look as if they were floating.
Hanging Gardens
The king who divided the Persian empire into 20 provinces, standardized the currency of the empire, and had the Royal Road built.
Darius the Great
The powerful merchant "empire" that founded a Carthage as a colony.
Phoenicia
What was the first animal ever to be cloned?
Sheep
A polity that is ruled by a monarch and made up of a city and its surrounding farmland.
City-state
This Neo-Babylonian king is featured in the Bible for his exile of the Jews to Babylon.
King Nebuchadnezzar
The war in which the Persians were driven out of Greece.
Greco-Persian War
This empire had a very powerful army and established a huge library at their capital in Ninevah.
Assyria
Weighing around 8 pounds, this is the human body's largest organ.
Skin
The belief in many gods.
Polytheism
The two major building projects undertaken by king Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon.
Hanging Gardens, Ishtar Gate
The Persian king who fought the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae and was defeated in the Greco-Persian Wars.
Xerxes
This epic hero was a Sumerian king of Uruk who sought immortality and who was written about by the Babylonians.
Gilgamesh
How many states does the Appalachian Trail cross?
14
Annunaki
A stone pillar on which laws and other important information was written and posted in public in Babylonia.
Stele
The name of the new capital built by Darius the Great.
Persepolis
The king of Akkadia who built Akkad.
Sargon
What is the average distance from the earth to the sun?
93 million miles
These pyramid-like structures were built as houses for the gods.
Ziggurats
The name of the form of writing created by the Babylonians.
Cuneiform
The name of local governors in the Persian imperial system.
Satraps
The people who invented ironworking and chariots.
Hittites
The Mona Lisa hangs in which museum?
The Louvre
Through irrigation, the rivers that ran through Mesopotamia brought this type of rich soil to crops.
Silt
A large 40-foot, bright blue gate covered in motifs of animals to honor a goddess. It has been.recreated by archaeologists.
Ishtar Gate
Why was Cyrus (and the Persians in general) such a successful leader? That is, why was it rare for people to rebel against him?
They allowed people to keep their own religion and cultural traditions.
The people who invaded Babylon in the 16th c. BC and do not appear to have been a Sumerian people based on their different language and gods.
Kassites
What is the only food that can never go bad?
Honey
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
Tigris and Euphrates
The first king of the Neo-Babylonian empire.
Nabopolassar
Cambyses
The name of the expensive purple dye from the murex snail made by the Phoenicians.
Tyrian Purple
Nearly all fossils are preserved in which type of rock?
Sedimentary
1. Flood/Rains to destroy humanity.
2. A human is instructed to (and does) build a boat.
3. Releasing of a dove.
Bonus: Name ALL the books of the Bible in which King Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned.
II Kings, II Chronicles, Ezra, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel.
The name of the religion that came about during the Persian empire that focuses on the battle between good and evil and whose motto is "good words, good thoughts, good actions."
Zoroastrianism
Name three TECHNOLOGICAL achievements of the Mesopotamian civilizations.
Wheel (cart wheel, potter’s wheel, etc.)
Plough
Sailboats (later, seafaring vessels in Phoenicia)
Measuring time
Makeup
Glass jewelry
Bronze (copper and tin)
Math (and geometry)
Twelve month calendar
Science
Medicine
Relative to the internet, what does the abbreviation "URL" stand for?
Uniform resource locator