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This temple was often built atop a massive stepped tower
What is a ziggurat
100
Fill in the blank: Leadership came from Babylon, a city-state south of Akkad, where_______ came to power. He gained control of Sumer and Akkad, thus creating a new Mesopotamia kingdom. He was remembered
Who is Hammurabi
100
Fill in the blank: The_____ is a unique river, beginning in the heart of Africa and coursing Northward for more than 4000 miles.
What is the Nile River?
100
What year did the Akkadians set up their first empire?
When is 2340 B.C.?
100
Rule by king or queen
What is a monarch
200
The basic units of Sumerian Civilization
What is a city-state
200
Fill in the blank: To the north of the Sumerian city-states were the _______. We call them a Semitic people because they spoke Semitic language.
Who are the Akkadians
200
Fill in the blank: One of the great achievements of Egyptian civilization, the building of the_______, occurred during the time of the old kingdom.
What are the Pyramids ?
200
When did Hammurabi gain power?
When is 1792 B.C.?
200
This was a collection of laws devised in ancient Babylon.
What is the Code of Hammurabi
300
An administrative organization with officials and regular procedures
What is a bureaucracy
300
Fill in the blank: The ________ were one of the most important nomadic people. Their name refers to a particular group of people who use a language derived from a single parent tongue.
Who are the Indo-Europeans
300
Fill in the Blank: The Israelites had established control over all of ______ and made _______ into the capital of Israel.
What is Palestine and Jerusalem?
300
When was the Great Pyramids was built?
When was 2540 B.C.?
300
The invention of cuneiform is credited to
Who are the Sumerians
400
A " steward of the whole land"
What is a vizier
400
Fill in the blank: By the time of _______, who ruled from about 970 to 930 B.C., the Israelites had established control over all of Palestine and made Jerusalem into the capital of Israel.
Who is King Solomon
400
Fill in the Blank: (hint an Empire) The_________ included Mesopotamia, parts of the Iranian Plateau, sections of Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt down to Thebes.
What is Assyrian Empire?
400
when did the New Kingdom collapse?Why did it collapse and
When was 1085 B.C.? It collapsed because new invasions were created in the 13th century by the "Sea Peoples" , as Egyptians called them, drove the Egyptians back within their old frontiers and ended the Egyptian Empire.
400
Modern historians have divided Egyptian history into three major periods known as,
The Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom
500
People who domesticated animals for both food and clothing. They moved along regular migratory routes to find steady sources of nourishment for their animals.
What is a pastoral nomad
500
Fill in the blank: The ______ were a Semitic speaking people who exploited the use of iron weapons to establish an empire by 700 B.C.
Who are the Assyrians
500
Fill in the Blank: An efficient system of communication was crucial to sustaining the________. Well maintained roads made it easy for officials to travel through the empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
500
When did Alexander the Great conquer the Persian Empire?
When was 330s B.C.?
500
The Mesopotamian religion, which identified nearly three thousand gods and goddesses, can be described as
What is polytheistic