Mesopotamia- Sumerians- Babylonians, Aryans and Phoenicians

cuneiform

A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.

Babylonians

A group of people who conquered the Sumerians. They had a very famous king named Hammurabi.

Ziggurat

A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddes of a Sumerian city

Tigris and Euphrates

Mesopotamia nestled itself between these two rivers

food surplus

Steady food supply

bronze and copper weapons

The Sumerians were the first to use the bronze for weapons

Irrigation

With the invention of this tecnique, lands were able to be farmed that previously could not have been

city-state

an independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

Hammurabi Code

legal code concerned with all aspects of human life in Babylon, regulated wages, working conditions and property right, punishments were harsh, laws based on 'an eye for an eye'

Sumerians

people who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions.

Akkadians

the empire that conquered the Sumerians and brought a Semitic language into the fertile crescent around 2330 BC

Mesopotamia

"land between the rivers"

Sargon I

King of Akkad in Mesopotamia; he is considered the founder of Mesopotamia and conquered many cities along the middle Euphrates to northern Syria. He established trade routes with the Indus Valley, the coast of the Oman islands, and the shores of the Persian Gulf