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The land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Farming villages that became this first civilization of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
Sumerian writing system
What is cuneiform?
Many different states under one ruler
What is an empire?
1000 years after The Babylonian Empire, this empire rose to stretch from Egypt to Asia Minor and to the Persian Gulf
What is the Assyrian Empire?
How Hammurabi's code differed from earlier codes
What is it was harsher?
The strip of fertile land from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Fertile Crescent?
These political units (places of habitation) had up to 20,000 residents; they combined urban and rural elements
What is a city-state?
Official record keepers
What are scribes?
First emperor; ruler of the Akkadians and Sumerians
Who is Sargon?
In addition to infantry and cavalry the Assyrians had these devices to help win their battles
What are chariots?
Why Hammurabi's code is studied
What is it influenced other later codes of laws?
They arrive in Mesopotamia 7000BC and by 4000 BC they settled in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley
What are Hunter-Gatherers?
Sumerians were this with regards to religion
What is polytheistic?
Long poem recounting the adventures of a hero
What is an epic?
Conqueror of the Amorites and ruler of the Babylonians who built his capital Babylon on the banks of the Euphrates
Who is Hammurabi?
The Assyrians got these from the Hittites and put them to good use winning wars
What are iron weapons?
Why call it New Babylonian Empire
What is the inhabitants of Babylon were descendants of the original Babylonians?
A system of dams, canals, holding basins, to distribute water
What is Irrigation?
Sumerian temples
What is a ziggurat?
The first epic in the world; a quest for immortality
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Hammurabi's most famous contribution to human history and development
Hammurabi's code of laws
To rule more efficiently, the emperor divided the empire into
What are provinces?
The key development that allows for specialization
What is a surplus?
Male based society; fathers rule families
What is a patriarchy?
Probably the most important technological invention of the Sumerians
What is the wheel?
Consider accepting What is a sailboat?
The size of Assyria's army
What is 50,000 men?
This Assyrian emperor built one of the first libraries in the world
Who is Ashurbanipal?