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Mesopotamia
Sumer
Four Empires
Mediterranean Civilizations
Miscellaneous
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Tigris and Euphrates
What two rivers is Mesopotamia located between?
100
Walls
What did Sumerians build to protect themselves from attack?
100
Created the world's first empire.
Who are the Akkadians?
100
The Phoenicians lasting contribution to world civilization.
What is inventing the alphabet?
100
The fertile crescent.
What is the Region located between the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea is called?
200
Built Levees
How did the Mesopotamians solve the problem of flooding?
200
Cuneiform
What is the Sumerian system of writing?
200
Created the Hanging Gardens.
Who are the Neo-Babylonians?
200
Created the world's first trading empire by learning how to sail well.
What is Phoenicia?
200
A religious leader.
What is a prophet?
300
Copper blades.
What is the evidence that shows that Sumerian society developed after the Stone Age?
300
People in the villages had to work together to take care of the system.
What happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?
300
The first effort to write down laws.
What is Hammurabi's code?
300
The place Abraham led the Israelites to when they left Mesopotamia.
What is Canaan?
300
The written laws of the Israelites.
What are the Ten Commandments?
400
The Mesopotamian Empire that conquered the Israelites.
What is the Assyrian.
400
Each settlement had it's own ruler and farmland.
Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?
400
Had powerful weapons and an army known to be cruel.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
The Israelites capital city.
What is Jerusalem?
400
To be forced to live in another country.
What is to exile?
500
All four empires could not control such a large territory.
What is the problem all four Mesopotamian empires had after the fall of Sumer?
500
Sumer lacked natural barriers to keep out enemies.
What made it harder to live in Sumer than in the Zagros foothills?
500
Created a written code of laws that everyone had to follow.
Who are the Babylonians?
500
The reason the Israelites left Canaan and went to Egypt.
What is famine?
500
A scattering of people.
What is a diaspora?