Fertile Crescent Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
The area in S.W. Asia known as the Fertile Crescent is located between what two large bodies of water?	Persian Gulf and Med. Sea
Mesopotamia lies between the _____ and ____ rivers?	Tigris and Euphrates
Name two things the Tigris and Euphrates rivers provided the people of ancient Mesopotamia.	Food, water for drinking, water for irrigation, clay for building, reeds for building boats.
Group of city-states in southern Mesopotamia?	Sumer
List 2 ways that city-states were separate from each other.	own king, own army, own government, own gods/goddesses
The Fertile Crescent was located on what continent?	S.W. Asia
Why was the area outside of the Fertile Crescent such a difficult place to live?	surrounded by mountains and deserts.
What was the name of the large stone temples built in the center of Mesopotamian city-states?	ziggurats
List the 3 "great empires" of the Fertile Crescent	Babylonian, Assyrians and Chaldeans
What was the name of the ancient system of writing developed in ancient Mesopotamia?	cuneiform
Why was a written system of language needed in ancient Mesopotamia?	To keep records, or to keep track of things.
Give an example of something that cuneiform was used for.	taxes, births and deaths, marriages, trades, animals...
Describe the process of writing cuneiform.	Scratch cuneiform symbols into wet clay tablets with a sharp reed.
Who was the leader of the Babylonian Empire that is famous for his "code of laws"?	Hammurabi
Why were Hammurabi's code of laws so important?	Laws were written down so people knew the laws and their punishments.
A professional writer in ancient Mesopotamia was called a ________?	scribe
____________ is a belief in many gods?	Polytheism
A ______________ is a separate, independent state with its own king, laws, gods, and army.	city-state
Why were people coming to Mesopotamia to live?	fertile soil, central location on trade routes, Tigris & Euphrates rivers.
List two examples of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.	Lighthouse at Alexandria, Statue of Zeus, Pyramids, Hanging Gardens, Mauseleum, Temple at Artimis, Colossus of Rhodes
What does "an eye for an eye" mean?	Punish should be similar to the crime.
Hammurabi's "code of laws" contained how many laws?	282
Give me an example of a law that would have been part of Hammurabi's code of laws?
List a reason for the downfall of Sumer.	wealth, fighting over river water.
The people of Mesopotamia were polytheistic.	True
List a positive of the yearly flooding of the Tigris/Euphrates rivers.	water for irrigation, and drinking, clay for building
List a negative of the yearly flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.	wiped out whole villages, killed people and animals, wiped out crops...
The Babylonians built roads throughout their empire. Why was this important? T_____ and T______	travel and trade
Who was the King of Babylon who built the Hanging Gardens because his wife hated the dry desert?	Nebuchadnezzar
If Cuneiform first developed around 3100 B.C., how many years ago was that?	5,000 years ago
Many territories and peoples controlled by one government?	empire
Capital of the Babylonian Empire?	Babylon
Famous epic or long poem about a Mesopotamian king (earliest recorded story)?	Epic of Gilgamesh
An extra supply of something?	surplus
Small particles of soil left by the rivers each year as they flooded?	silt
Method of watering crops by using a series of canals/ditches?	irrigation
A long story about a hero?	Epic
Two examples of important Sumerian inventions?	wheel, sailboats, pottery wheel, written language (cuneiform), irrigation canals, bronze, new plow...
Capital city of the Assyrian Empire?	Nineveh
Capital city of the Babylonian Empire?	Babylon
What was the new invention that made the Assyrians almost unbeatable in battle?	iron weapons
Put these events in chronological order: specialization, surplus, new technology, and cities & towns	new technology, surplus, specialization, and new towns/cities
Name a person who belonged to each of the 3 social classes.	upper: kings, govt. officials, warriors, & priests Middle: farmers, fishermen, merchants and artisans Lower: slaves
Besides, Mesopotamia, name another river valley civilization during this time.	Egypt, India or China
What two things were city-states often at war over?	land and water
Tell me 2 reasons why the Assyrians were so feared in battle?	iron weapons, 50,000 soldiers, brutal, destroyed cities, chariots and calvary...
rural	living in the countryside.
urban	living in a city
priests	people who performed religious ceremonies
monarch	a ruler of a kingdom or empire.
chariot	a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle.
alphabet	a set of letter s that can be combined to form words

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