1. 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Vocabulary SUMER BABYLONIA ASSYRIA PHOENICIA / HITTITES

2. An organized list of laws

3. What are codes?

4. Official Writers

5. What are scribes ?

6. Many territories & people controlled by one ruler.

7. What is an empire?

8. A city with its own government and ruler

9. What is a city- state?

10. Belief in many gods

11. What is polytheism?

12. Importance of fertile soil in Mesopotamia

13. What caused the people to settle in Sumer?

14. Greatest invention

15. What is the wheel?

16. Very bad place; did not want to go here

17. What was their afterlife like?

18. Writing system

19. What is cuneiform?

20. Don’t know whether true or not…not a book

21. What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

22. Capital of Babylonia

23. Who was Babylon?

24. Conquered Sumer and made one country

25. Who was Hammurabi?

26. Had the first to have his laws wrote down

27. Who was Hammurabi?

28. Eradicated Nineveh and Jeruselem

29. Who was Nebuchcadnezz ar II?

30. Last civilization to conquer Babylonia (Sumer, Assyria, or Persia)

31. Who was the Persians?

32. Noted for being

33. What is violent or cruel?

34. First to outfit their armies with

35. What are iron weapons, helmets, and armor?

36. Used an invention of Sumer to a fighting machine…

37. What is a chariot?

38. King Assurbanipal built the first

39. What is a library?

40. Capital of Assyria

41. What is Nineveh?

42. Greatest invention Phoenicians gave us (Use today)

43. What is our alphabet?

44. Phoenicians became rich because they were great

45. What are traders, sailors, or merchants?

46. Great city in Phoenicia

47. What is Tyre?

48. Phoenicia is located in today’s

49. What is Lebanon?

50. Two of inventions the Hittites gave us

51. What are light weight and faster chariots, and advanced weapons?