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What is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money?
What is to barter
100
What means to supply water to?
What is irrigate
100
What is a Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things?
What is cuneiform
100
What was the new tech. used by the Assyrians that allowed their army to be stronger?
What is iron
100
The term Mesopotamia refers to which two rivers?
What is 1. Tigris 2. Euphrates
200
What is a wide flat plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq?
What is Mesopotamia
200
What is the belief in many gods?
What is polytheism
200
What is a state containing several countries or territories?
What is an empire
200
Why might an ally become an ally with another nation?
What is: 1. They may share the same military goal. 2. They may share the same political goal.
200
Sargon created the world's empire by conquering who?
What is Mesopotamian city-states
300
What is an independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory?
What is a city-state
300
What is a brick pyramid Mesopotamian temple?
What is a ziggurat
300
What is an idea of doing things that is common in a certain culture?
What is a cultural trait
300
Who was responsible for making Babylon the center of the Mesopotamian empire?
Who is Hammurabi
300
Why was the Epic of Gilgamesh important?
What is it was a story written about a possible king. It was also the first story written in cuneiform on twelve stone slabs.
400
What is a set of laws that governed life in the Babyonian Empire?
What is Hammurabi's Code
400
What is a region with good conditions for growing crop that stretches from the Mediterranean coast through Mesopotamia to Persian Gulf?
What is the Fertile Crescent
400
What is a payment or gift to a stronger power?
What is a tribute
400
List two details about the Assyrian Empire
What is 1.covered most areas of Mes. 2. they were powerful warriors due to iron weapons & frequent conflict
400
What are the three levels of social classes developed by the Sumerians in order started with the lowest?
What is 1. slaves 2. farmers and skilled workers 3. Powerful priests and wealthy merchants
500
What is the idea that all members of a society even the rich and powerful must obey the law?
What is rule of law
500
What is a grand stone pillar?
What is stele
500
Who are soldiers who fight while riding horses?
What is cavalry
500
List three details that the Assyrian and Persian Empires have in common
What is 1. Both ruled Mes. & Egypt 2. Had strong armies 3. Gov't was similar
500
List two details about the Persian Empire
What is 1. Extended deep into Asia 2.It became wealthy under Darius the Great