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
An organized list of laws
What are codes?
Official Writers
What are scribes ?
Many territories & people controlled by one ruler.
What is an empire?
A city with its own government and ruler
What is a city- state?
Belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
Importance of fertile soil in Mesopotamia
What caused the people to settle in Sumer?
Greatest invention
What is the wheel?
Very bad place; did not want to go here
What was their afterlife like?
Writing system
What is cuneiform?
Don’t know whether true or not…not a book
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Capital of Babylonia
Who was Babylon?
Conquered Sumer and made one country
Who was Hammurabi?
Had the first to have his laws wrote down
Who was Hammurabi?
Eradicated Nineveh and Jeruselem
Who was Nebuchcadnezz ar II?
Last civilization to conquer Babylonia (Sumer, Assyria, or Persia)
Who was the Persians?
Noted for being
What is violent or cruel?
First to outfit their armies with
What are iron weapons, helmets, and armor?
Used an invention of Sumer to a fighting machine…
What is a chariot?
King Assurbanipal built the first
What is a library?
Capital of Assyria
What is Nineveh?
Greatest invention Phoenicians gave us (Use today)
What is our alphabet?
Phoenicians became rich because they were great
What are traders, sailors, or merchants?
Great city in Phoenicia
What is Tyre?
Phoenicia is located in today’s
What is Lebanon?
Two of inventions the Hittites gave us
What are light weight and faster chariots, and advanced weapons?