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Geography
Sumerian Life
Babylonia
Assyria
Legacy of Mesopotamia
100
This is a city that is also an independent state, or nation.
What is a city-state?
100
This natural disaster usually came without warning, causing great harm to people, animals, farms and houses.
What is a flood?
100
This is an area of many territories and peoples that is controlled by one government.
What is an empire?
100
The Assyrians created this weapon for battle.
What is a battering ram?
100
Scribes wrote on tablets made of this.
What is clay?
200
The Fertile Crescent region was between what two rivers?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
What was the name of the temple that was the heart of the Sumerian city?
What is a ziggurat?
200
This is a group of traders who travel together for protection.
What is a caravan?
200
The Assyrian Empire stretched as far as this Egyptian River.
What is the Nile River?
200
This is a professional writer in ancient times.
What is a scribe?
300
This word comes from the Greek words that mean "between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
300
This word means 'a belief in many gods.'
What is polytheism?
300
This king of Babylon conquered the city of Mari.
Who was Hammurabi?
300
This city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
What was Nineveh?
300
This term is used to describe a punishment that reflects the crime that was committed.
What is 'eye for an eye'?
400
The Fertile Crescent region is part of what modern nation?
What is Iraq?
400
These are stories about gods that explain people's beliefs.
What are myths?
400
King Nebuchadnezzar was responsible for building what ancient wonder for his wife?
What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
400
Assyrian warriors used these to hurl stones at their enemies.
What are slings (or slingshots)?
400
This code of laws is significant because it was the first recorded code of laws in history.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
500
The city-states of Kish and Ur were found in this southern region of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
500
In 2000, B.C., Sumer fell to this civilization.
What is Babylonia?
500
Under the rule of this people, the New Babylonian Empire became a center of learning and science.
Who were the Chaldeans?
500
In 612 B.C., these two groups defeated the Assyrians.
Who are the Chaldeans and the Medes?
500
This wedge-shaped form of writing was created to help keep records.
What is cuneiform?