Geography
The two rivers that make up the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Sumeria was the ________ in human history.
What is the first civilization?
The most important invention in history.
What is writing?
Ancient Babylon was built near what modern day city?
What is Baghdad, Iraq?
The First emperor of the Akkadian Empire
Who was Sargon?
Large sea to the west of Mesopotamia
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Rival city-states often fought for these two resources.
What are farmland and water?
Many cuneiform tablets recorded these kinds of records.
What are business records?
1795 BCE to 1750 BCE.
What are years that Hammurabi ruled in Babylon. ?
Sargon's daughter who was both priestess and poet.
Who was Enhuadana?
A type of fertile soil deposited after annual flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is silt?
Sargon grew the first empire from this city-state.
What was Akkad?
The sumerian numbering system based on the number 60, is the basis for this modern invention.
What is timekeeping?
Hammurabi ended this practice which led to more tax revenues for infrastructure projects.
What is graft?
Longest reigning emperor of the Babylonian Empire known as both 'The Law Giver' and 'The Builder'.
Who was Hammurabi?
~7,000 BCE
What is when farming began in Mesopotamia?
These people were the highest rank in the Sumerian social hierarchy.
Who are kings/royalty?
These were built at the center of large cities as symbols of power and worship.
What are ziggurats?
Hammurabi's Code is based on this idea
What is 'an eye for an eye'.
Chaldean king who rebuilt the city of Babylon, making it a center of learning in Mesopotamia.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Priests, crafters and government workers created a a result of a new division of labor
What are new jobs?
These people were the lowest part of Sumerian society.
Who were slaves?
Sumerian research into minerals, plants and animals led to discoveries still used in modern this
What is medicine?
Hammurabi's Code influenced modern laws because it had these.
What are specific punishments for specific crimes?
Babylonian god of Justice.
Who was Shamash?