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Ancient Meso.
Anciant Mesopotamia Clivilizations
Question | Answer |
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What are the 7 civilizations in order? | Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Chaldean/Neo-Babylonians, Persians |
What civilization was a Theocracy? | Sumerians |
What is a Theocracy? | Religious figures rule |
What is a city-state? | A city inside of a state with its own laws and gov't |
What civilization had city-states? | Sumerians |
What was the Sumerians economy like? | Slavery, social inequality, slaves could buy freedom |
What civilizations farmed? | All of them |
What civilizations traded? | All of them especially the Babylonians and the Persians |
What was the Royal Road? Who built it? | A road built by the Persians for trade, it went from Turkey to Iran |
Who was the first empire? | Akkadians |
Who was the Akkadians king? | Sargon the gret |
Who was the Babylonians king? | Hammurabi |
Who was the Neo-Babylonians king? | King Nebucharenezzaar |
Who was the Persians King? | King Cyrus |
Who was the wisest tolerant King? | King Cyrus |
What civilizations had polytheism? | All but Perisians |
What was the Persian religion? | Monothistic, "Zorothanism" |
Who was known for conquest? | Assyrians |
What is the code of Hammurabi? | 282 laws written by the Babylonians |
What public works did most civilizations have? | Irrigation and city walls |
What civilization built the library and what was it called? | The Assyrians built the Library of Ninevah |
What civilization built aquaducts? | Assyrians |
What civilization built Ziggurats? | Sumerians |
What civilization built the hanging gardens? | Neo-babylonians |
What civilization built the Ishtar gates? | Neo-Babylonians |
What civilization had a postal service? | Persians |
What is a stela? | A stone pillar built by the Babylonians |
What civilization had royal palace? | Assyrians |
Who was Gilgamesh? | A character from the epic poem, Epic of Gligamesh |
What is cuneiform? | Pictographic way of writing using symbols to represent words |
Who invented the Abacus? | Akkadians |
Who invented the plow? | Sumerians |
Who invented the wheel? | Sumerians |
Who invented Fertilizer? | Sumerians |
Who invented astonomy and math? | Sumerians |
Who invented the 60 second minute, the 60 minute hour, he 12 month calendar and the 365 day year? | Babylonians |
Who invented fractions and the seven day week? | Neo-Babylonians |
Who invented the first standardized coins? | Persians |
What was the Akkadians dominant language? | Akkad |
Who first used writing for literature? | Assyrians |
What was writing first invented for? | To label things and keep track of trade |
What was the shortest lived civilization? | Persians |
Who was the longest lived civilization? | Sumerians |