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Civiliazation in Sumer
Conquests and Empire Building
Resolve Conflict
Later Empires
Vocabulary
100
The Sumerian farmers created this to control river flooding.
What are dikes?
100
Sargon is known for this.
What is creating the world's first empire?
100
This is another word for conflicts.
What is disagreements?
100
The Assyrians learned these things from the Hittites?
What is how to make iron tools and how to make and use chariots?
100
This is the meaning of monarchy.
What is a governing system ruled by a king or queen?
200
This led the Sumerians to develop a writing system.
What is the government wanted to keep records of food production and distribution?
200
This describes the system of taxation the kings of Babylon created.
What is a system of taxation under which people are made to pay for the running of their government?
200
This is what it means to compromise?
What is each person gives up some of what he or she wants?
200
One of the following was NOT an achievement of the Assyrians: paved roads, locks and keys, 12- month calendar, and organization of government.
What is a 12-month calendar?
200
This is the meaning of bureaucracy.
What is a governing group of specially selected officials?
300
This is who made up the lowest class in Sumerian society.
Who are farm workers and slaves?
300
The Kassites conquered Babylon by doing this.
What is waiting until the Hittites left the city with its riches?
300
This is the first step of resolving a conflict through compromise.
What is to state clearly and politely what you want and then to listen to the other person's views?
300
This is a scribe.
What is a person who writes things for others?
300
This is the meaning of code.
What is a set of laws set down in a clear and orderly way?
400
These are the measuring systems that the Sumerians created.
What are the acre, quart, and 12-month calendar?
400
Besides taxation, these are the innovations in government that the Babylonians created.
What are a single authority and a set of laws that covered crimes against the empire and the people?
400
Steps 4 and 5 of the compromise procedure both involve this.
What is talking?
400
After the Medes conquered the Assyrian Empire, this city became the center of civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?
400
This is the meaning of territory.
What is a large division of a country?
500
Besides measurement tools, these are other innovations for which the Sumerians are remembered.
What are sailboats, bronze, and the potter's wheel?
500
The Code of Hammurabi was based on this idea.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
500
These are three things that different groups living in Mesopotamia often fought over.
What are water, natural resources, and borders?
500
This city was the first capital of Assyria.
What is Nineveh?
500
This is the meaning of decree.
What is an official order or decision made by a ruler?