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Created the wheel?
Sumerians
Civilization that created the first library with over 200 books?
Assyrians
Who created the code of over 200 laws?
Hammurabi
Hammurabi's belief:
"Eye for an eye & a tooth for a tooth"
What caused the fall of the Neo-Babylonian empire?
poor harvest & weak rulers & slow trade
Name the three ways Sargon's empire acquired wealth:
trade, tribute, taxes
Where was the Fertile Crescent located?
SW Asia, Mesopotamia, near the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Middle class in Mesopotamia:
merchants, farmers, fishers, artisans
What was the Phoenician economy based on?
trade
Name a role women could play in society.
rulers & priestess, own businesses, run the home
Put these in the correct order: irrigation, specialization, food surplus
irrigation, surplus, specialization,
Name a characteristic of an early Mesopotamian city-state:
Own government/ Built walls around the city for protection/ Fought over land & resources
Important contribution that Phoenicians made to future civilizations?
Developing an alphabet
How did the geographic location of Mesopotamia promote the growth of civilization?
The fertile soil of the Tigris & Euphrates rivers
How did Sargon create the world's first empire, Akkad?
He conquered weak city states
When a ruler, like Sargon, forces people to pay _______ as a sign of submission
tribute
Having additional food
food surplus
individual territory with its own government
city-state
official record keeper
Scribe
believing in more than one god
polytheism
A society dominated by men
patriarchy
A pyramid structure with temple on top
ziggurat
What is the writing system called that uses wedge shaped marks & has 500 symbols
cuneiform
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