World History Chap. 4

city-state

each _______ had its own government and was not part of any larger governing state.

Nabopolassar

forced the Assyrians out of Uruk and was crowned king of Babylonia.

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

The civilization began on the plain between the

Iraq

The earliest known civilization, developed in what is now southern ____.

The wheel, the sailboat, the 60 second minute, 60 minute hour, and the 360 degree circle and the chariot

The people of Mesopotamia made many useful inventions. What were some of these inventions?

They were well trained and disciplined. They took tribute, or forced payments, from conquered people.

What made the Assyrian Army so powerful and why were people so afraid of them?

Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; This means that the punishment for a crime should match the seriousness of the crime. it was meant to limit punishment and do away with blood feuds.

What was Hammurabi's code and why was it so different from other codes or laws?

Amorities

A people called _______ lived in the region west of Mesopotamia.

Hammurabi

Around 1792 B.C., the Babylonian King, _________, began conquering cities controlled by the Smorities.

silt

Flooded rivers were filled with _____ or small particles

Babylonian Empire

By adding these lands he created the __________________.

Ashurbanipal

An Ancient Assyrian king named ______ built one of the world's first libraries in Nineveh.

Hanging Gardens

Babylon's _________ were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

mud

Because stone and wood were in short supply, the Sumerians used ___ from the rovers as their main building material.

Sumer

By 3000 B.C., several cities developed _____, a region in southern Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Civilizations first developed about 3000 B.C. in the river valleys of ___________.

wedge

Cuneform comes from a latin word meaning _________.

One

Each City-state claimed _____ God(s).

carnelian

For jewelry making, Sumerians valued a red stone called _____ from India's Indus Valley.

7000 B.C.

Historians believe that people first settled Mesopotamia about

Persians

In 539 B.C., the _______ recognized that the Chaldeans had lost their strength and leadership. They captured Babylon and made Mesopotamia part of their empire.

Babylon

In the 1800s B.C., they conquered Mesopotamia and built their own cities. The best known city was _______.

priests

In the early days, _______ of the ziggurat ruled the city-states.

writing

Of all the contributions made by Sumerians to the world, _______ is perhaps the most important.

iron

One of the key factors in the Assyrians successes was _____ weapons.

hereditary

Overtime, the king's rule became _____________, meaning after a king died, his son took over.

farming

Silt proved to be a very good soil for _________.

Hammurabi Code

The ______ dealt with crimes, farming, business, marriage, and the family.

Sumerians

Sumer's people were known as

provinces

The Assyrians divided their empire into _____, or political districts.

New Babylonian empire

The Chaldean Empire sometimes called the _______________________.

Polytheism

The Sumerian people worshipped many gods, a type of belief known as ___________.

They contributed Writing, technology and mathematics, inventions

The Sumerians made many contributions that have made a lasting effect on history. What were these contributions.

Assyrians

The _____ Empire arose about 1,000 years after the empire of Hammurabi.

Cuniform

The _____ writing system was made up of about 1,200 different characters.

Epic of Gilgamesh

The worlds oldest known story is from Sumer. It is known as ________________.

lapis lazuli

They also searched for a blue stone known as ____. ____ from what is now Afghanistan.

Ur, Uruk, and Erido

They built the first cities in Southwest Asia, including

Ziggurat

To honor its god, a city-state often included a large temple called a __________.

Chaldeans

With the Assyrians in turmoil, a group of people called the _____ took power.

Fertile Crescent

a curing strip of good farmland that extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.

Sargon

was an ambitious leader who ruled the people of Akkad, known as the Akkadians.

Scribes

wrote documents that recorded much of the everyday life in Mesopotamia.