Sargon & Akkad
This king built the first empire.
Who is Sargon?
When an empire gets weaker and weaker.
What is a decline?
This city became strong after Akkad fell.
What is Babylon?
A rule everyone must follow.
What is a law?
A king or queen who rules.
What is a ruler?
Sargon's empire was named after this city.
What is Akkad?
No rain meant these died.
What are crops?
The city where the king rules.
What is a capital?
A big list of laws.
What is a code?
A city and the farms around it, with its own king.
What is a city-state?
To take over land by fighting.
What is conquer?
Enemies who attacked Akkad from outside.
Who are raiders (invaders)?
The clever king of Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
Hammurabi carved his laws on this.
What is stone?
A group of soldiers.
What is an army?
Many lands ruled by one king.
What is an empire?
A reason something happens.
What is a cause?
Babylon was on this river.
What is the Euphrates?
If you hurt someone, you get the same hurt back.
What is an eye for an eye?
To join together as one.
What is unite?
Sargon united the city-states of this land.
What is Sumer?
What happens because of a cause.
What is an effect?
Hammurabi made Babylon the center of a new one of these.
What is an empire?
Laws on stone so everyone could see them were meant to be this.
What is fair?
Akkad, then Babylon: big empires rise, then they do this.
What is fall?