1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Terms Map People and Places CivilizationGrab Bag

2. This is a large political unit or state that controls many people and territories, usually under a single ruler.

3. What is an Empire?

4. He gathered the various laws from the different parts of his empire and wrote a single set of laws for everyone to follow.

5. Who is Hammurabi?

6. The founder of Judaism

7. Who is Abraham?

8. The trading people who sailed around the Eastern Mediterranean

9. Who are the Phoenicians?

10. The site of Nebuchadnezzar II’s “Hanging Gardens”.

11. Babylon

12. This is where a river meets a larger body of water.

13. What is The Mediterranean?

14. “God-King”

15. What is the Nile River?

16. The annual, regular flooding of the Nile was called this by a Greek Historian

17. What is the Black Sea?

18. The discovery which allowed us to understand the Egyptian Language(s).

19. What is the Red Sea?

20. This was the true purpose of the pyramids.

21. What is the Euphrates River?

22. He is credited with “an eye for an eye”

23. Who was Hammurabi?

24. Hammurabi ruled from this city

25. Babylon

26. His city was known for its “Hanging Gardens”

27. Nebuchadnezzar II

28. This king was known for: constructing a temple in Jerusalem, being a wise and just ruler, and making Israel a powerful kingdom

29. King Solomon

30. The ancient civilization known as the first to use Iron Weapons

31. Who are the Hittities?

32. Known as “land between the rivers” this area was the site of the worlds first civilizations

33. What is Mesopotamia?

34. This is the major change that allowed populations to expand and civilizations to begin.

35. What is the Neolithic Revolution? Also acceptable: Farming, Food Surplus

36. A distinct landmass that is part of a continent

37. What is a Subcontinent ?

38. These are the two big negatives of relying on a river to flood.

39. What are floods and drought/famine?

40. The tribe that Archeologists believe originated most of the languages in the Mesopotamia region

41. Who are the Indo-Europeans?

42. The two rivers that Mesopotamia is between

43. What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

44. We have the Phoenicians to thank for this contribution.

45. What is the Alphabet?

46. A family of rulers who pass the right to rule from generation to generation

47. What is a Dynasty?

48. This is what we call a society that is dominated by men.

49. What is Patriarchal?

50. This is how the Assyrian Military operated.

51. What is a Meritocracy?