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Ancient Meso.

Anciant Mesopotamia Clivilizations

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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
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