Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia had a system of _____ ______, which were independent cities within a country or region with their own ruler and god.
What is CITY-STATES?
Type of government style in Sumer (within Mesopotamia).
What is theocracy?
The first empire in history.
The name of the cities that Alexander the Great created along his path of conquest.
What is Alexandria?
The year that Romans took over most of the Middle East.
115 CE
The religion style that people in Mesopotamia practiced.
What is polytheism?
First recording writing by the Sumerians. Word means "wedge."
What is CUNEIFORM?
The first written law code where the punishment fit the crime.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The son of Phillip II of Macedonia.
Who is Alexander the Great?
To save half of the Roman empire in the East, this capital was created in modern day Turkey of the Byzantine empire.
What is Constantinople?
These structures in Mesopotamia was where taxes were collected, grain was given as tribute to gods, and scribes recorded writing.
What are ziggurats?
Mesopotamia is located in this modern-day country?
What is Iraq?
This group of people mastered iron, which was stronger and more common, spreading it through the Middle East
Who are the Hittites?
What is Hellenism/Hellenistic Era?
A building in the Byzantine empire, commissioned by Emperor Justinian, acting as a church to honor Christianity in the empire.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Mesopotamia is located between these 2 rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
A leader who allowed the Jews to return to Israel after they were enslaved in Babylon.
Who is King Cyrus the Great?
A word for many wives. The reason why the Persian empire was weakened when Alexander the Great conquered it.
What is polygamy?
The people who conquered the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
Who are the Ottomans?
Mesopotamian civilization refers to achievements from these three areas/cultures.
What is Assyria, Akkad, and Sumer?
The three major social groups/classes in Sumerian society.
What are Nobles, Commoners, and Slaves?
An accomplishment of the Persian empire.
What is the use of coins?
What is the Battle of Marathon?
The two reasons why the Roman empire collapsed.
What are splitting power between 2 sons and invasion of Germanic tribes in the West?