Mesopotamia and Ancient Civilization

The fertile land between the Tigris & Euphrates

• Nile River

• Fertile Crescent

• Ancient Egypt

• Candy Land

Primary sources include all of the following except?

• Artifacts

• Text book

• Written Records

• Documents

What ancient civilization does these accomplishments best explains: Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, Epic of Gilgamesh – epic poem Trade in gold, silver, tin, and textiles Algebra & Geometry

• Sumer

• Akkadians

• Egyptians

• Assyrians

• Amorite

What ancient civilization does these accomplishments best explains :Cuneiform, Roman arch, Wheel Division of a circle into 360 degrees, Division of hours and minutes into 60 units

• Sumer

• Akkaidans

• Egyptians

• Persians

What ancient civilization does these accomplishments best explains: Advances in medicine, papyrus, and the Solar Calendar

• Sumer

• Akkaidans

• Egyptians

• Beamesanoties

What ancient civilization does these accomplishments best explains: Tyre, a port city, was the leading city Great merchants, great fleet

• Amoirte

• Ziggurats

• Phoenicians

• Egyptians

What ancient civilization does these accomplishments best explains:Crossroads of civilization.”Damascus – one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Aramaic - the language of commerce

• Persians

• Assyrians

• Armeans

• Akkadians

What ancient civilization does these accomplishments best explains:Iron weapons, Siege towers, Battering rams, War chariots Mass deportation of captives

• Assyrians

• Persians

• Armeians

• Akkadians

What ancient civilization does these accomplishments best explains: Destruction of Jerusalem, Advances in astronomy. Instrument of God’s judgment. Object of God’s wrath.

• Armeans

• Chaldean (Babylonians)

• Persians

• Hebrews

Government based on the power of a deity?

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Polytheism

• Monotheism