Question | Answer |
City that governs itself more or less independently. | City-state |
Greek for "wedge-shaped" which describes the Sumerians alphabet. | cuneiform |
Soldiers fight while mounted on horseback | cavalry |
terraced pyramids that housed religious shrines at the top | ziggurats |
carving of a stair-stepped levels into a steep slope | terraced |
Originated in ancient Persia and emphasized the importance of triumph of good over evil | Zoroastrianism |
trade goods directly for other goods instead of using money | barter |
spread of ideas from one place to another | cultural diffusion |
soil in the water | silt |
small pieces of baked clay used to represent particular things | token |
protected area | citadel |
many different lands brought under the rule of one government | empire |
belief in many gods and goddesses | polytheism |
Name the word that means 'between the river' in Greek. | Mesopotamia |
Another name for the 'Fertile Cresent' is ___ | Mesopotamia |
Name the area that is the 'cradle of civilization'. | Mesopotamia |
__________ was precious and had to be brought down from the mountains. | Wood |
T/F - There was no building stone on the flat river plain and there were few trees for lumber. | True |
Sun dried bricks were softened by rain so they learned to ___________ the bricks in fire. | bake |
______________ bricks were used for important buildings such as temples. | Fire-baked |
Thick ___________ surrounded the city like a fort. | walls |
T/F - An advantage to city-life was that residents had to grow all their own food. | False |
T/F - Farmers made wooden benches, created cooking pots and would spin wool into cloth. | False -- city dwellers |
T/F - Keeping accounts of how much barley, wool or other goods was not a very important job. | False |
T/F - Mesopotamian bookkeepers made marks on smooth paper that evolved into cuneiform. | False |
Both _____________ & ______________ were in charge of running the cities. | priests and kings |
T/F - People were monotheistic. | False |
T/F - Orphans and the needy are not taken care of. | False |
T/F- People believed if the gods were pleased, the city would be safe and enjoy prosperity. | True |
T/F - There was one government over all Mesopotamia. | False |
In times of _______, cities chose a person to be their leader. | war |
_______________ in war meant death or slavery. | Defeat |
Name the king that ruled Akkad from 2334-2279BC. | Sargon the Great |
We know the most about the laws of King ________________ of Babylon. | Hammurabi |
Ur, Uruk, Kish and Lagash are ALL _________________ city-states. | Sumerian |
Name the oldest fictional Sumerian tale. | Epic of Gilgamesh |
Name the warlike people that conquered Babylonia around 1200 BCE. | Assyrians |
T/F - The Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians ALL built ziggurats. | True |
This group of people were 'copy cats' of the Babylonian culture. | chaldean |
Name the person that began the spread of Zoroastrianism. | Cyrus |
Name the group of people that first used coins for trade. | Lydians |
T/F - The Phoenicians never controlled the entire Fertile Crescent. | True |
The Phoenicians established the colony of ______________ and this allowed them to promote cultural diffusion. | Carthage |
Persian king, Darius divided his empire into 120 _________________ which were ruled by governors. | satrapies |
Name the most important idea that the Phoenicians spread. | phonetic alphabet (each character stood for a sound) |
T/F - Our own alphabet derived from the Assyrians. | False -- Phoenicians |