Geography
It was the capital of the Babylonian Empire
What is the city of Babylon?
The Babylonian Leader who made them famous
Who is Hammurabi?
The religion in the Babylonian and Hittite Empires would be described as this
What is polytheistic?
This is the military tactic Hammurabi used successfully
What are building dams?
This is the original name of where the Hittites were located
What is Anatoia?
The Babylonian empire was centered in this modern-day country
What is Iraq?
Hammurabi made an alliance with this city state to fight the Elamites
What is Larsa?
Their gods were based on this
What is natural forces?
This group helped cause the fall of the Akkadian Empire
Who are the Gutians?
This is the modern day name of where the Hittites were located
What is Turkey?
The Babylonian Empire stretched between these 2 bodies of water
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf?
This is the way Hammurabi came to power
His father abdicated and he took over from his father
This is the name of the god that gave Hammurabi the code of laws
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Who is Shamash?
This was Hammurabi's ethnic background
What is Amorite?
This is who the Hittites fought and the name of the treaty that ended the war
Whar are Egyptians and Treaty of Kadesh?
It was the capital of the Hittites Empire
What is Hattusa?
Hammurabi betrayed the kings of these 2 city states
What is Larsa and Mari?
This is the god Hammurabi built temples for
Who is Marduk?
This was what Hammurabi focused on during his years as king
What are infrastructure improvements?
This why the Hittite Empire collapsed
What is climate change (drought), internal strife/rebellion/civil war, attacks by the Sea People and invasion by other empires?
The cause of the flooding in the Babylonian Empire
What is the overflow of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?
This is what eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire
What is collapsed?
Because of the number of Hittite gods, they were often called
What is the people of a thousand gods?
This was not Hammurabi's method for sending secret messages.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This is how geography benefitted the Hittite Empire
Strategically located between the Mediterranean and Black Seas that facilitated trade and acculturation
Was rich in natural resources
Mountains provided natural defenses