Mesopotamia

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  1. 3. 1895-539 BC. empire in Mesopotamia; Hammurabi was one of its rulers
  2. 5. 2334-2218 BC. the first empire in the world, founded by Sargon the Great who unified Mesopotamia under his rule.
  3. 6. the ruler of the Babylonian Empire from 1792 BC to 1750 BC, whose most enduring legacy is the code of laws he put together.
  4. 8. code a set of laws
  5. 9. the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
  6. 10. a law code enacted by Hammurabi, the king of Babylonia around 1772 BC
  7. 11. the area of land nearby and parallel to a river
  8. 14. an arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
  9. 17. the digging up of earth in order to search for something such as remains​​.
  10. 19. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
  11. 20. a grouping of people in a society based usually based on wealth, religion, ethnicity, or other factors
  12. 22. a series of rulers from the same family.
  13. 23. 3500-1650 BC. a region in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, part of the land making up the Fertile Crescent, meaning "land between the rivers" in Greek, where the first early river valley civilizations started
  14. 24. a conqueror from Akkad who defeated the city-states of Sumer about 2350 BC, creating the world’s first empire.
  15. 26. a skilled worker, such as a weaver or a potter, who makes goods by hand.
  16. 29. a long-lasting pattern of organization in a community.
  17. 30. the belief in many gods
  18. 31. a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
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  1. 1. a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by Sumerians around 3000 BC.
  2. 2. the development of skills in a specific kind of work
  3. 4. kingdom of northern Mesopotamia that became the center of one of the great empires of the ancient Middle East. The people were famous for their cruelty and fighting prowess and were monumental builders, as shown by archaeological sites at Nineveh, Ashur, and Nimrūd.
  4. 7. a period in human history, beginning around 3000 BC in some areas, during which people began using bronze, rather than copper or stone, to fashion tools and weapons.
  5. 9. a Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire.
  6. 10. all the different ways a distinct group of people interact with one another and their environment and pass these ways down from generation to generation over time
  7. 12. a new method of addressing a problem
  8. 13. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
  9. 15. the relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something.
  10. 16. ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet people's needs.
  11. 18. a form of trade in which people exchange goods and services without the use of money.
  12. 21. a temple, in the form of a stepped pyramid, which literally means “mountain of god.”
  13. 25. a professional record-keeper.
  14. 26. a mixture of chemical elements in which at least one is a metal
  15. 27. a human-made object​.
  16. 28. a form of culture characterized by an economy that produces food surpluses, cities, social classes, specialized jobs, developed systems of government, religion, and learning, achievements in technology, art, and monumental architecture, and systems of record keeping