Civilization of Sumer
The two rivers that make up the land in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The world's first empire.
What is the Akkadian empire?
Cloth weaving, pottery, glass, metal objects, wood furniture.
What are things that the Phoenicians manufactured?
Soldiers who fight on horseback.
What is cavalry?
The first story ever written in Sumerian civilization.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
An independent city that includes a city and its surrounding territory. It had its own government, laws, and customs.
What is a city-state?
Who was Hammurabi?
The knowledge of wind patterns and ocean currents.
How did Phoenicians explore the seas?
An idea or way of doing things that is common in certain culture.
What is cultural trait?
This was a 1,500 mile long road in the Persian Empire?
What is the Great Royal Road?
This was originally used for recordkeeping, taxes and agreements.
What is cuneiform?
A permanent army of professional soldiers with a core of 10,000 elite soldiers.
What is a standing army and the "Immortals"?
The setting up of trading stations along the Mediterranean coast.
How did the Phoenicians begin to form colonies?
A belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Who is Sargon?
It was believed that they could communicate with the gods.
Who were the priests in city-states?
He helped to further develop the Persian by creating a currency and road system.
Who was Darius the Great?
This was considered the greatest city-state developed from a Phoenician colony.
What is Carthage in North Africa?
Goods and services that are brought in from another country and sold here.
What are imports?
Who were the Phoenicians?
The plow, irrigation, wheel, sails, astronomy, mathematics, bronze.
What are the achievements and inventions of the Sumerian civilization?
This greatly influenced the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is Zoroastrianism?
These two things are considered the Phoenicians' most legacy they left behind.
What is cultural diffusion and the alphabet?
A carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end.
What is a stele?
These two kinds of leaders needed to support each other in order to get credibility from the people.
Who were kings and priests in Sumerian city-states?