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What modern-day country was Mesopotamia in?
Iraq.
How could Sumerian city-states gain more power?
Fighting other city-states and taking more land under their control.
Which city-state became dominant over the other city-states?
Babylon.
Where did the Chaldean Empire rule form?
Babylon.
What was Mesopotamia bordered by in the north and east?
Mountains.
What provided more food to Sumer so more people could specialize in different things?
Agriculture/farming.
The Code of Hammurabi was a written set of what and their what.
Crimes and their punishments.
Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World did king Nebunchadnezzer of the Chaldean Empire build?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
The waters of what two rivers were critical to Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Sargon a king of Akkadia created a single unified what?
Government.
The Code of Hammurabi was displayed in each city-state on what?
Large stones.
Where were the Phoenicians located modern-day?
Lebanon.
Building up the river banks helped control what?
The flood waters.
The Akkadians were the largest what seen at the time?
Empire.
Babylon and the Assyrians used what for laws?
The Code of Hammurabi.
Why was the Phoenicians freedom respected?
Other people valued their trades.
Each city-state in Sumer had their own what for protection.
There own military.
The Akkadian Empire controlled almost all of where?
The Fertile Crescent.
The Assyrian Empire had a well developed what?
Army.
What were the Phoenicians skilled in that the rest of the region were not?
Sailing and ship building.