10 pt

15 pt

20 pt

25 pt

5 pt

10 pt

15 pt

20 pt

25 pt

5 pt

10 pt

15 pt

20 pt

25 pt

5 pt

10 pt

15 pt

20 pt

25 pt

5 pt

10 pt

15 pt

20 pt

25 pt

5 pt

Vocabulary TimelinesHistorical

Facts

Seven Signs Of

CivilizationMap Skills

A means of supplying a land

with water

What is an irrigation system?

Writing that uses wedge shaped

characters

What is cuneiform?

A large territory where several groups of people

are ruled by a single powerful leader or

government

What is an empire?

Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior

What is tribute?

A sculpture in which the image

projects out from a flat surface

What is bas-relief?

Akkad

ian

Bab

ylon

ian

Ass

yria

nN

eo-

Bab

ylon

ian

What is the Neo-Babylonian

Empire?

Akkad

ian

Bab

ylon

ian

Ass

yria

nN

eo-

Bab

ylon

ian

What are the Assyrian and

Neo-Babylonian Empires?

100 CE100 CE2008 BCE2008 BCE100 BCE 100 BCE 2008 CE2008 CE

What isWhat is 2008 BCE2008 BCE100 BCE100 BCE100 CE100 CE2008 CE2008 CE

The five Mesopotamian civilizations IN

CHRONOLOGIC ORDER.

What are the Sumerian City-StatesThe Akkadian Empire

The Babylonian EmpireThe Assyrian Empire and

The Neo Babylonian Empire?

Akkad

ian

Bab

ylon

ian

Ass

yria

nN

eo-

Bab

ylon

ian

2100 BCE 1700 BCE 1300 BCE 900 BCE

They invented the

wheel.

What are the

Sumerians?

He wrote the code of laws

Who is Hammurabi?

They were the first empire in

Mesopotamia.

What is the Akkadian Empire?

They created the Hanging Gardens of

___________ and they were the

__________________s.

What are Babylon and

the Neo-Babylonians?

After cutting off the heads of enemy leaders, they

forced defeated soldiers to march barefoot wearing

their leaders heads around their necks.

Who are the Assyrians?

Cuneiform

What is writing?

A king is higher in status than a

farmer.

What is

social structure?

“Inana, Mistress of heaven, with the great crown, who loves the

good headdress showing the job of a priestess, who has seized all seven of its divine powers! My

lady, you are the guardian of the great divine powers!”

What is religion?

LawsLaws

What is government?

Battering RamsBattering Rams

What is Technology?

Mesopotamia is the land

between these two rivers.

What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?

Where would the farmers live?

What is outside of the

walls?

Which three cities did the _______ Which three cities did the _______ Empire conquer first?Empire conquer first?

What is the Assyrian

Empire? What is Ashur,

Nineveh and Kalhu?

The two main rivers in

Mesopotamia flow into this body of water.

What is the Persian Gulf?

This empire was the largest

What is the Assyrian Empire?