The Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire

What are human-made waterways?

Who was an Akkadian emperor who defeated Sumer and built the world's first empire?

What is the science of building?

What are picture symbols?

What is the world's first system of writing?

What was a series of wars between Persia and Greece?

What is a way of supplying water to an area of land?

What is more of something than is needed?

What is a set of letters that can be combined to form written words?

Who was the city of Babylon's greatest monarch?

How did the Phoenicians improve naval navigation?

Why was Mesopotamia ideal for farming?

What was a writer and record keeper?

Why was the development of writing important to government officials in Sumer?

What is land with different territories and peoples under a single rule?

How did the use of irrigation affect life for the Mesopotamians?

Who was a Uruk king who became a legend in Sumerian literature?

What is a political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside?

What was a rule of a kingdom or an empire?

Who was the founder of the Persian Empire?

Why was Cyrus the Great so successful in conquering different people in Southwest Asia?

Why was religion so important to the Sumerians?

Who was the Persian emperor who organized and expanded the empire?

Why was it important that Hammurabi's Code was written down?

What advancement did the Hittites develop?

Who were people who performed religious ceremonies?

What was a division of society by rank or class?

What is an organized group of people (society) that live in an area and work to improve their way of life?

What is an arrangement in which people specialize in different tasks?

Who was the Persian emperor who led the second invasion of Greece?

Why was Sargon important in history?

What is the worship of many gods?

What is a unit of soldiers mounted on horses?

What is a large arc of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea?

What was a pyramid-shaped temple tower?

How did Athens and Sparta defeat the Persian Empire in the Persian Wars?

What is a mix of rich soil and small rocks?

What was a wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart?

What were long poems that tell the stories of heroes?

Why was Phoenicia's location ideal for trade?

Who was the Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon?

What is having to do with the countryside?

Which of the following was a result of Darius' use of a standardized currency and new road construction?

What is having to do with the city?

What was the earliest known collection of laws?

For what purpose were cylinder seals used in Sumer?

Which of the following advancements allowed the Sumerians to construct larger cities?