Ancient Mesopotamia | Early Civilizations | World History | Khan Academy

Question 1

Mesopotamia

Answer 1

• between rivers (Greek)
• modern day Iraq
• cradle of civilization (first place that agriculture developed, cross roads of many other emerging civilizations)

Question 2

Sumeria

Answer 2

• started around 4000 B.C.E
• invented wheel in 3500 B.C.E
• famous for architecture
• polytheistic religion
• one of the first written languages (cuneiform)

Question 3

Akkadia

Answer 3

• language and Empire
• Semitic language
• northern Mesopotamia
• first empire, Acadia
• first significant ruler was Sargon the Great
• 24th century B.C.E.
• rule for a little over 100 years

Question 4

Babylon

Answer 4

• Hammurabi
• centered at Babylon
• most known for Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest codes

Question 5

Assyria

Answer 5

• Assur
• Akkadian speaking
• at peak, controlled much of modern day middle east
• collapsed in 7th century and taken over by neo-Babylonian empire
• Nebuchadnezzar II (famous for taking the early Jewish people captive)
• overthrown in 6th century by Persians, Cyrus the Great