Ch 2 Review 2

Greek for "land between the rivers"

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

• Euphrates

complex societies that have organized governments

• city-state

• civilization

• Sumer

Some Sumerians made metal, cloth, and pottery because they were skilled

• artisans.

• merchants

• traders

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• government officials

• writers

• scribes

The calendar developed by the Sumerians was based on

• number 60

• cycles of the moon

• 360 degree circle

Capital of the Assyrian Empire

• Sumer

• Babylon

• Nineveh

Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

• Nineveh

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Nebuchadnezzar

person who studies the stars

• astronomer

• descendant

• mathematician

Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

• Hanging Garden

• Ziggurat

• King's Palace

Babylon was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and the

• Euphrates River

• Persian Gulf

• Nile