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Sumer
Vocabulary
First Empires
Assyrian and Persian Empire
The Phoenicians
100
This lead to the conquest of Sumer.
What is fighting between Sumerian city-states?
100
Soldiers who fought while riding horses
What is cavalry?
100
Another name for Old Babylonian empire.
What is Babylonia?
100
Sumerian carved statues were very unique for this reason.
What is they looked like real humans?
100
Phoenicia's location meant they had to do this to trade.
What is sail?
200
This helped Sumerians produce more food.
What is improved agricultural techniques?
200
This set of law's governed life in the Babylonian empire.
What is Hammurabi's Law?
200
He united Sumer after Sargon.
Who is Ur-Namma?
200
This Assyrian leader spent a large amount of money on large building projects in Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
200
Because Phoenicians had few natural resources they did this.
What is is traded for goods?
300
The Fertile Crescent's soil could be described as this.
What is rich and fertile?
300
"land between the rivers" in Greek.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
This is how Sargon kept track of such a vast empire.
What is he appointed local rulers to govern smaller regions?
300
This religion taught that there was one supreme god.
What is zoroastrianism?
300
The Greeks small change to the Phoenician alphabet.
What is add vowels?
400
Caused Sumer's population to grow.
What is a dependable food supply?
400
A system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things.
What is Cuneiform?
400
He led Babylon to become a powerful empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This man shared his father's dream of building a very large empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
400
Phoenicia did not have its own supply of ivory, so it traded for ivory with other regions, which made ivory an.....
What is import?
500
Most historians believe Sumer is important for this reason.
What is it is believed to be the world's first civilization?
500
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
500
What caused the spread of Sumerian culture?
What is Sumerian troops spread their culture as they traveled through the Fertile Crescent?
500
The Assyrians learned ironworking from these people.
What is the Hittites?
500
The Phoenician alphabet was based on these.
What are sounds?