Week 7 World Hist 1

Match the following

• civilization

• a form of writing, used in ancient Egypt, in which pictures or symbols are used

• Hieroglyphics

• any complex society characterized by the development of advanced technology, cities, institutions, specialized workers and written language

• Assyrians

• The name of the land between the two major rivers in the Middle East

• Silt

• Mesopotamian Empire known for their fierce army

• Mesopotamia

• The fertile dirt deposited along river banks

Match the following

• The ability for a civilization to create better methods of doing tasks

• Technological Advances

• Leader of Ancient Babylon best known for his law code

• Tigris

• system of writing using mostly wedge-shaped characters

• Cuneiform

• one of the rivers in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia

• Hammurabi

• First Civilization to smelt iron for weaponry

• Hittites