Chap4 Final Flashcards
The Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia includes what lands today
Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan
Did city states go to war to increase trade
No
Who conquered the people of Mesopotamia
Sargon
What was included in the Assyrian army
Soldiers, infantry, cavlary, and charioteers
What was the first army to use iron weapons
Assyrian
What do astronomers study
Stars and planets
What was Gilgamesh
An epic poem about a war hero
Who had the first library
Nineveh
What is a ziggurat
A place of worship
What is a scribe
Some one who writes or records information
Who led the Rebels against the Assyrians
The Chaldeans
Who were the first kings of Sumer
They were war heroes
Who wrote the code of laws
Hammurabi
Who was In the middle class
Farmers, fishers, artisans, merchants
The summers in this region have flooding because…
Of melting snow
