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Vocabulary SUMER BABYLONIA ASSYRIA PHOENICIA / HITTITES 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 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?