Mesopotamia
What was Mesopotamia?
A region with several cities in it
To control water supply, what did people learn to build in Ancient Sumer?
Canals and Levees
A city state is a
Collection of cities that were like small independent countries with their own rulers
What was the world's first empire?
The Akkadian Empire
Hammurabi is famously known for his
Code of Laws
Where is Mesopotamia located? Between what rivers?
The Tigris and Euphrates River
People moved from the foothills out onto the plains, this area was known as
Sumer
What surrounded the city states for protection?
Walls and Motes
What was the meanest and toughest empire to come through Mesopotamia?
Assyrians
Hanging Gardens
What is the fertile crescent?
An area where civilization first started
Sumer was
Neither a city nor a country, rather a collection of cities with a common way of life
What did the Assyrians use to take down enemy walls?
The 60 minute hour and 7 day week
What were two things invented during Hammurabi's reign that are still in use to this day?
Roads and Postal Service
People moved out of the foothills and down towards the plains because of what reason?
Food Shortage
What caused villages to start getting along, which led to them increasing in size from villages to towns and then to cities of thousands?
A need for water, so they dug canals from the river to their village
The fourth empire was the Neo-Babylonian Empire, what does "new" mean?
New
What was the driving force behind all the empires to conquer and take over land?
They were greedy for land
The system that Sumerians came up with to keep water to their village is alot like what that we still use to this day?
Farming & irrigating fields
What was a major accomplishment and contribution to our society even unto this day, which came from the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
The 60 minute hour & 7 day week