World History People and Places 4000 - 800 BC
| What people formed the first know civilization in 3500BC? | Sumerians in Mesopotamia. |
| What Babylonian leader first developed a written code of law? | Hammurapi |
| What group conquered Babylon from the north in 1595 BC? | Hittites |
| When the Hittite empire collapsed around 1200 BC, what nation gradually took their place? | Assyrians |
| What great king led Israel around 1000 BC? | David |
| What ruler led the Babylonians to victory over the Assyrians around 612 BC? | Nebuchadnezzar II. |
| What group of light-skinned invaders conquered the darker Indians around 1500 BC? | Aryans |
| What maritime civilization developed on the island of Crete around 2000 BC? | Minoans |
| What early Greek civilization laid seize to Troy in Asia Minor (Turkey)? | Mycenaeans |
| What Middle Eastern maritime civilization eventually built the city of Carthage in the 8th century BC? | Phoenicians |
| Who wrote the epic Greek poems the Illiad and the Odyssey in the 8th century BC? | Homer |