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Mesopotamia
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the 5 components of Civilization? | Specialized Workers, Complex Institutions, Record Keeping, Advanced Cities, & Advanced Technology |
| The region of Mesopotamia that is curved in shape and has rich land is called _________________? | The Fertile Crescent |
| Mesopotamia means ___________________? | The land between 2 rivers |
| What 2 rivers is is Mesopotamia located between? | Tigris & Euphrates |
| The first civilization to emerge in Mesopotamia was? | Sumer |
| Sumerians lived in cities and the land around them called city-states. How did these city-states function? | Like their own independent country |
| In Sumer, rulers began to pass down their right to rule to their sons. This is called a ______________? | Dynasty |
| The process in which new ideas or products spread from one culture to another is called? | Cultural Diffusion |
| The Sumerians were ________________, meaning that they believed in many gods. | Polytheistic |
| The first person in history to build an empire was? | Sargon of Akkad |
| This ruler created the 1st Babylonian Empire. But his most enduring legacy was his code of laws. | Hammurabi |
| Hammurabi's Code had how many laws? | 282 |
| What ancient story was found in the city-state of Uruk? | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| What group of people were known for their ship-building skills, giving us the first alphabet, and purple dye? | Phoenicians |
| What group of people were known for their ruthless warfare tactics of spreading fear into people and also worried that if they lost a battle the end of time would happen? | Assyrians |
| What Assyrian king bragged that he had destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon, and ordered most of the inhabitants killed? | Sennacherib |
| The capital of the Assyrian Empire was? | Nineveh |
| Nineveh was known to have one of the ancient world's largest libraries, which had collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from the Fertile Crescent. Which king did this? | Ashurbanipal |
| What group of people conquered the Assyrians? | Chaldeans |
| Which Chaldean king reestablished the capital in Babylon and built the famous Hanging Gardens? | Nebuchadnezzar |
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