Vocabulary 1
These were cities surrounded by smaller villages.
What are city-states?
Babylon emerged around this year.
What is 1800 B.C.E?
The Sumerians settled between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The kingdom north of Sumeria was called this.
What is Akkad?
Around 1100 B.C., a people we call the Phoenicians built a number of city-states in Canaan, the eastern tip of this area.
What was the Fertile Crescent?
This is the writing invented by the ancient Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
This much-feared king ruled the city-state of Babylon.
Who was Hammurabi?
Also called "The Land Between Two Rivers", this is where the Sumerians settled.
What is Mesopotamia?
The Akkadians stole their writing system from these people.
Who are the Sumerians?
The Phoenicians did not have farming, but they specialized in this.
What is ship building?
This is the part of the Middle East where early civilizations developed.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Hammurabi built this to honor the god Marduk.
What was a ziggurat?
Sumerian slaves could set up these, as well as borrow money.
What is a business?
He is known for uniting the Sumerian people in Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon I?
Some historians believe that the Phoenicians sailed to this area.
What is America?
This is a time when crops do not grow and there is no food.
What is a famine?
The system of laws created in Babylon was called this.
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
Sumerians made these out of clay and used them to build their houses.
What are bricks?
Sargon I ruled for this long in Mesopotamia.
What is 35 years?
Hebrew stories were collected to make this book.
What is the bible?
This is another word for an agreement.
What is a covenant?
This was built to protect Babylon and was 11 miles long and 80 feet wide.
What was a wall?
These buildings were the center of every Sumerian city-state.
What are temples, or ziggurats?
The kingdom of Sargon I stretched over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This natural disaster caused the Hebrews to move to Egypt.
What was a famine?