Transcript Blank Jeopardy

Vocabulary
SUMER
BABYLONIA
ASSYRIA
PHOENICIA /
HITTITES
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An organized list
of laws
What are codes?
Official Writers
What are scribes?
Many territories &
people controlled
by one ruler.
What is an empire?
A city with its
own government
and ruler
What is a citystate?
Belief in many gods
What is
polytheism?
Importance
of fertile soil
in
Mesopotamia
What caused
the people to
settle in
Sumer?
Greatest invention
What is the
wheel?
Very bad place; did
not want to go here
What was their
afterlife like?
Writing system
What is
cuneiform?
Don’t know
whether true or
not…not a book
What is the
Epic of
Gilgamesh?
Capital of
Babylonia
Who was
Babylon?
Conquered Sumer
and made one
country
Who was
Hammurabi?
Had the first
to have his
laws wrote
down
Who was
Hammurabi?
Eradicated
Nineveh and
Jeruselem
Who was
Nebuchcadnezz
ar II?
Last civilization to
conquer Babylonia
(Sumer, Assyria, or
Persia)
Who was the Persians?
Noted for being
What
is
violent or
cruel?
First to outfit their
armies with
What are iron
weapons, helmets,
and armor?
Used an invention of
Sumer to a fighting
machine…
What is a chariot?
King Assurbanipal
built the first
What is a library?
Capital of
Assyria
What is Nineveh?
Greatest invention
Phoenicians gave
us
(Use today)
What is our
alphabet?
Phoenicians
became rich
because they
were great
What are
traders,
sailors, or
merchants?
Great city in
Phoenicia
What is
Tyre?
Phoenicia is
located in today’s
What is
Lebanon?
Two of
inventions the
Hittites gave us
What are light
weight and
faster chariots,
and advanced
weapons?