Akkadians
What was the Akkadians Empire?
This ruler conquered most of the Tigris and Euphrates valley and also was a great military leader.
Were Semitic-speaking people from northern Mesopotamia.
Who were the Assyrians?
Conquered most of the Fertile Crescent and would rebuild the city of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
People who conquered Babylon in 539 B.C.
Who are the Persians?
He was the most powerful Akkadian King.
Who is Sargon?
A set of strict laws that regulated wages, hours, working conditions and property rights.
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
This was their capital that had huge wall around it for protection.
What was the city of Nineveh?
Who was Cyrus the Great?
this is the geographical area that the Akkadians lived in.
What is Mesopotamia?
Made Babylon rich and where you could shop for item for far away places.
What was trade and bazaars?
The most feared of the Assyrian warriors.
Who were the armed charioteers?
Their measurements were only a few minutes different from the length modern scientists have found.
What is the length of the year?
Separate group of inspectors to keep the King, informed about rebellions and corruption in the empire.
Who weer the "King Eyes and Ears"?
The capital of the of the Akkadian Empire.
What is Akkad?
Through trade and agriculture.
How did the rulers of the empire become wealthy?
Nineveh, because of its remarkable library that held thousands of clay tablets with writings from Sumer and Babylon, was known as.
What is the city of great learning?
Chaldeans were open to attack by powerful neighbors.
How was New Babylon like other Mesopotamian empires?
Persians developed this to rule and built this to encourage trade with other civilizations.
What were bureaucracy and and roads?
They took over the Akkadian's land and made it their own.
Who are the Babylonian people?
Caravans stopped here on they way between Sumer to the south and Assyria to the north.
What is Babylon?
Why was the Assyrian Empire overthrown?
They would keep careful records of movements of the stars and planets and could predict solar & lunar eclipse.
Who were Chaldean astronomers?
These teaching would help people choose between good and evil and the idea of final judgement.
What is Zoroastrianism?