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Chapter 3
Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent |
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| Which 2 land features gave Mesopotamia its name? |
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| The Tigris River and the Euphrates River |
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| Why did Mesopotamians build canals? |
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| They needed a way to control the river's flow |
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| Why did city-states fight each other for farmland? |
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| Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow food. |
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| What did Sargon's empire have in common with other Mesopotamian city-states? |
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| It fought with surrounding city-states |
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| Who served as a link between the Sumerians and the gods? |
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| A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols |
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| What technology did Hittites ans Assyrians use in battle? |
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| Iron weapons and chariots |
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| What was the relationship between trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet? |
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| The Phoenician alphabet spread along their routes. |
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| The resource for which Phoenicia was well known |
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| Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar both |
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| What factor may have limited the growth of Sargon's empire? |
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| The Syrian Desert did not have enough good farmland. |
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| Defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia. |
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| Became a legendary firgure in Sumerian literature |
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| Sumerian city centers were dominated by |
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| Used by Sumerians to make symbols on clay tablets |
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| rose to power after the death of Sargon I |
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| Hunter-gatherer groups first settled in Mesopotamia more than 20,000 years ago |
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| The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on its population |
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| Sumerian women could be important religious leaders |
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| Sumerians developed a math system based on the number 100. |
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| Babylon was located near present-day Baghdad, Iraq |
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| A way of supplying water to an area of land |
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| Located in the countryside |
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| A division of society by rank or class |
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| Picture symbols used for written communication |
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| Long poems that tell the story of a hero |
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| A ruler of a kingdom or empire |
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| A wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart |
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| A set of letters that can be combined to form words |
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