Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia means
land between the rivers.
Highest Ruling Class
Govt officials & Priests
These 282 laws are known as
Hammurabi's code
Hittites located in the
Asia Minor
Persian were also known as
Achaemenid Empire
Where did settlers get their water to irrigate?
the rivers
Each city-state had one of these...
Ziggurat
Give an example of a harsh punishment according to Hammurabi's Code.
Eye for an Eye.
What was the Hittites advantage in battle?
Horse Drawn Chariots
Cambyses II conquered whom?
Egypt
Floods Spread ___ to help make the land fertile
Silt
What is the name for what we call a flea market?
Bazaar
What happened to the Akkad empire after Sargon's death?
The empire collapsed
What is stronger than copper and bronze?
Iron
Darius I created what?
Royal Road
The timing of this was unpredictable.
floods
City-states were ruled by whom?
Kings
What did the first Babylon have to take over the Akkad?
well trained army
Who did the Hittites conquer?
Babylon
Xerxes spent a lot of money to the point what happened?
Persia went broke and collapsed.
Villagers build what to help control the rivers?
Dams
This invention changed the course of humanity as we knew it.
the wagon wheel
Babylon's head god is
Marduk
What secret was revealed after the collapse of the Hittites?
How to extract iron from ores
Who took over Persia after a series of poor kings?
Alexander the Great