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Name that Empire
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100

This was the religious belief of the Mesopotamians.

What is polytheism?

100

Cuneiform was written on this.

What is a clay tablet?

100

This Empire came after the Old Babylonian Empire.

What is the Assyrian Empire?

100

He was the first Emperor.

Who is Sargon?

100

A trading of goods without the use of money.

What is a barter?

200

This empire is said to be the world's first Empire.

What is the Akkadian Empire?

200

Sumerians made their weapons using this material.

What is bronze?

200

This empire came before the Persian Empire.

What is the Neo-Babylonian Empire?

200

These people were the original rulers of the Sumerian Civilization.

Who are priests?

200

The cuneiform writing system uses this shaped symbols.

What is a triangle?

300

This is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory. 

What is a city-state?

300

This technology allowed river water to be brought to farms.

What is an irrigation system?

300

This Empire's ruler was Cyrus the Great.

What is the Persian Empire?

300

This Sumerian ruler created the first known set of laws.

Who is Ur-Nammu?

300

An army in which the soldiers ride on horses.

What is a cavalry?

400

The nickname given to the land of Mesopotamia for its rich farming land.

What is Fertile Crescent?

400

This was a building where priests could communicate with gods.

What is a ziggurat?

400

This was the Empire that Hammurabi was the ruler of.

What is the Old Babylonian Empire?

400

This ruler believed that punishments should match the crime that was committed.

Who is Hammurabi?

400

The belief that all people, even the rich and powerful, should follow the rules.

What is Rule of Law?

500

The names of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

500

The material that Assyrians used to make tools.

What is iron?

500

This Empire's capital city was Nineveh.

What is the Assyrian Empire?

500

This Neo-Babylonian ruler used his money to create the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Who is Nebuchadnezzar?

500

A stele is written on this.

What is a stone pillar?

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