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7 Characteristics
Words, Empires, and More oh my!
Leaders/Cities
Sumer
Etc.
100
The invention of the plow would show this characteristic of a civilization.
What is a stable food supply
100
A ziggurat was built on this
What is a parraku
100
This was the capital for the Assyrians
What was Nineveh
100
Sumer is considered to be the first of this in the history of the world
What is a civilization
100

 The people helped write and record laws. 

Who are the scribes 

200
Merchants and artisans were in the middle level of this characteristic
What is social structure
200
This was the Akkadians only true achievement
What is being the first empire
200
He was the first leader of the Babylonians
Who was king Hammurabi
200

Sumer is located where these two rivers meet

What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

200
This is the number of laws Hammurabi wrote.
What are 282 laws?
300
These are two of the jobs that Kings in Sumer had
What is enforced laws; collected taxes; built temples; built irrigation systems; led the army.
300
This was a primary cause for many of the empire's collapse
What is trying to control too vast a territory; being too big
300

He lead the first empire of Mesopotamia

Who was Sargon the Great

300
This was often found located in the center of a city-state.
What is a ziggurat
300
This empire was the first to build and use battering rams.
Who are the Assyrians
400
Ziggurats were a key part in this characteristic.
What is religion
400
These prove that Sumer had a stable food supply.
What are a plow, irrigation, domesticated animals?
400

The 4 empires that rose to power in Mesopotamia 

What are the Akkadian empire, the Babylonian empire, the Assyrian empire, and the neo-Babylonain empire 

400
This is the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism
400

A king built this for his wife who missed the mountains of her homeland

What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

500
The Sumerians created a written language called this
What is Cuneiform
500

This empire was believed to be the most fearsome and cruel of all the empires

Who were the Assyrians

500
He was the leader of the Neo-Babylonians
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar
500

What the Assyrians do to keep their land fertile

What is built canals to irrigate. 

500

The empire that rose to power when the neo-Babylonian empire fell

What is the Persian empire?