$ 20 $ 30 $ 40 $ 50 $ 10 $ 20 $ 30 $ 40 $ 50 $ 10 $ 20 $ 30 $ 40 $ 50 $ 10 $ 20 $ 30 $ 40 $ 50 $ 10 $ 20 $ 30 $ 40 $ 50 $ 10 Vocab Sumerians Phonecians Fertile Crescent Miscell- aneous
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
What is silt?
A large arc of rich, fertile farmland
What is The Fertile Crescent?
A pyramid shaped temple tower
What is a ziggurat?
A wheeled horse drawn cart used in battle.
What is chariot?
The science of building
What is architechture?
The climate in Sumer
What are hot and dry?
Where is Sumer located?
What is southern Mesopotamia?
List two things Sumerians invented
What is the wheel, writing, plow, etc.?
Sumerians developed a math system based on this number
What is 60?
List the social hierarchy in Sumer, starting at the top
What is the king, priest, merchants, craftsmen, traders, farmers, laborers and slaves?
Phoenicians were known for expanding?
What is trade?
What is Lebanon?
The Phoenicians most important achievement
Creating the alphabet.
List two things that the Phoenicians traded
What is cedar, purple cloth, ivory carvings, & silverwork?
The Phoenicians founded several new colonies along trade routes. True or false?
What is true
Mesopotamia means what in Greek?
What is “land between the rivers?”
The Tigris and Euphrates spill into what body of water?
What is the Persian Gulf?
List two crops that farmers in Mesopotamia grew
What is wheat and Barley
With irrigation many people could do different jobs. This is called
Division of labor
Define monarch
What is a ruler or king?
The story of Gilgamesh was a long poem called a(n)
What is an epic?
Who was the ruler of the Chaldeans and what was he known for?
Who is Nebuchadnezzar and he was known for the hanging gardens?
The Assyrian Empire was supported how?
What is harsh rule and forcing people to pay taxes?
Who was the ruler that created 282 laws with harsh punishments?
Who is Hammurabi?
List the 8 empires in order from oldest to most recent
What is Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Hittites, Kassites, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Phoenicians ?