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The land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
What is an epic?
The empire of Hammurabi.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
The capital of the Assyrian Empire.
What was Nineveh?
The capital of the Chaldean Empire.
What was Babylon?
a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
A record keeper.
Who was a scribe?
A list of laws and penalties.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Horse soldiers.
What was a cavalry?
Built by Nebuchadnezzar.
What were the Hanging Gardens?
Belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
The king of Akkad.
Who was Sargon?
What was the Assyrian Empire?
Weapons used by the Assyrians.
What were iron weapons?
The gift of the Nile.
What is Egypt?
What was a large pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top?
What is a ziggurat?
Another name for the Akkadian Empire.
What is the Mesopotamian Empire?
Connected the provinces.
What were roads?
Foot soldiers.
What was an infantry?
Names of the parts of Egypt that were based on the northern flow of the Nile River.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt.
a form of writing using a wedge shaped object to make marks in sharp clay
What is cuneiform?
The people who conquered Mesopotamia after the Akkadians.
Who were the Amorites?
The law of retribution
What is lex talionis?
King who led a revolt against Assyria.
Who was King Nabopolassar?
The mouth of the Nile River where it empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the delta?