Study guide-Mesopotamia

What is a temple dedicated to the city- states god/goddess?

What is the area of land that includes the Tigris & Euphrates rivers & extends to the Mediterranean Sea?

Who was defeated by the Greeks which stopped the Persian advance into Europe?

What did the Hittites have that allowed them to conquer the Babylonians?

Who conquered the Babylonians?

Give two inventions of the Sumerians

Phoenicians were known for their...

___ was made up of ___ -___.

___ of Babylon created one of the earliest codes of ___ in the world.

In the first code of law created by King Hammurabi, punishments were harsh and followed the ___ code.

What is the form of writing developed by Sumerians where a reed was used to make imprints on wet clay?

Who enslaved the Israelites?

___ became the first to use coined money instead of bartering.

Men had authority over women and children, but women could...

Who led Persia against the Greeks until he lost at the Battle of Marathon?

What is a place where ideas, customs, religious beliefs, and technology spread?

Who was known for their harsh treatment of the people they conquered and people feared them throughout the land?

The Phoenicians were a ___ trading power.

What are independent self-governing communities including the city and surrounding farmland?

Sumerians religions was ___?

City-states are independent?

___ was home to one of the world's first libraries.

The oldest epic poem in the world was ___.

What was The Epic of Gilgamesh about?

City-states were ruled by?

What means the land between the rivers?

Sumer was a center of ___ ___.

Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Who was the ruler of the first empire in the world?

Persia was conquered by...

Polytheistic means that the Sumerians...

Who treated conquered people well and their empire stretched as far as Egypt?

Phoenicians developed the first...