Vocabulary
Soldiers who fight while riding horses
Cavalry
This city was important because it was the world's FIRST civilization
Sumer
What city was the center of Hammurabi's empire?
Babylon
How could the flood of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers be helpful?
Deposited minerals to the soil making it fertile
To supply water to
irrigate
Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
City-State
______ among city-states led to the conquest of Sumer
Fighting
The belief that the world is in a constant struggle between good and evil is the main belief of what Persian religion?
Zoroastarianism
This person could rule such a vast empire because they appointed governors to rule parts of their empire for them
Sargon
Group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state
Colony
Idea that all members of a society--even the rich and powerful-- must obey the law
Rule of Law
What did Sumerian sculptors create that was different than previous art work
More human like statues
The pattern of offense = punishment is an example of what..
Hammurabi's Code
How could the floods of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers be harmful?
Destroyed crops and villages
Wide-flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present-day Iraq
Mesopotamia
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
Hammurabi's Code
True or False:
Hammurabi's code treated ALL members of society equally
FALSE
Being written in cuneiform and a legendary myth that tells a story of a hero describe what ancient myth?
Epic of Gilgamesh
This civilization developed a great knowledge of wind patterns and ocean currents and were thus considered to be "great" sailors
Phoenicians
Spread of cultural traits from one culture to another
Cultural diffusion
A payment or gift to a stronger power
Tribute
Which civilization's alphabet was based on sounds?
Phoenician
This was used to transport trade goods AND allowed the Persians to create the fastest communication system of the ancient world
Great Royal Road
Phoenician writing used few letters to represent sounds, making it different than the writing used prior which was what form of writing
Cuneiform
A permanent army of professional soldiers
Standing army