Famous Names
the first ruler of the first ever empire
Who is Sargon the Great?
What is the Assyrian Empire?
the first system of writing invented by Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
The region in Mesopotamia where agriculture and farming was made possible by the rivers
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The purpose of Egyptian Pyramids.
What are tombs for the Pharaohs?
the king of the Old Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
An efficient way to govern and control an empire.
Bureaucracy
One of the first written legal codes
Hammurabi's Code
The capital city of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
The good that the Nubians were most known for having and trading.
What is gold?
The pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
The second most powerful person in Ancient Egypt.
Who was the vizier?
The Egyptian writing system
Hieroglyphics
The capital city of Ancient Egypt.
What is Memphis?
Who is Narmer?
Famous king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Who is Nebuchadnezzer II?
How Nabopolasser defeated Assyria.
The Egyptian invention of paper made from natural reeds
What is papyrus?
The reason the Nubians had to travel by foot instead of on the Nile River.
What are the Nile Cataracts?
The name of Persian provinces; they were allowed to keep their independence as long as they remained loyal to Persia.
What are satrapies?
The man who rebelled against the Median Empire and expanded to create the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Darius the Great created this in order to make his empire more efficient at trade, travel, and communication.
What is the Royal Persian Road?
What are chariots?
The area of fertile land surrounding the northern part of the Nile River.
The Nile Delta
Two factors that could have caused the bronze age collapse.
What are natural disasters and invasions of the sea peoples?