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Vocabulary
Geography
Places
People
General Information
100
Groups of people who have a complex and organized society within a culture.
What are civilizations?
100
An area of flat land.
What is a plain?
100
This means the land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
100
Defeat of another group.
What is conquest?
200
Rich, as in soil.
What is fertile?
200
An area of high, flat land.
What is a plateau?
200
A city-state in the southern region of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
The ruler of Akkad that conquered and then united all the city-states of Mesopotamia under one rule.
Who is Sargon?
200
The practice of one person owning another.
What is slavery?
300
Method for watering crops.
What is irrigation?
300
An area on Earth with common physical features.
What is a region?
300
A city-state in the northern region of Mesopotamia.
What is Akkad?
300
In 1792 B.C., he became the king of Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The worship of only one God.
What is monotheism?
400
A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.
What is a city-state?
400
A curve-shaped area with rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
An organized community with established rules and traditions.
What is a society?
400
From 688 B.C. to 627 B.C., the Assyrian Empire was at its most powerful under this king.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
400
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
500
Crafts people such as potters or weavers.
What are artisans?
500
The two rivers that border the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
Hammurabi's empire.
What is Babylonia?
500
This ruler was crowned king of Babylon in 627 B.C. and ordered massive building projects to make it great and glorious once again.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
500
People who are born, later, into the same family.
What is a decendent?