Vocabulary
gods
What are deities?
Carved 282 laws into a monument for all to see
Who is Hammurabi?
Ruled the largest empire in the world
Who were the Assyrians?
Sumerians could sell themselves into slavery to pay this off.
What is debt?
to take over
What is to conquer?
Who is Ur-Nammu?
Sumerians relied on these people in the city-state in order to survive.
Who are fishers, herders, and farmers?
Sargon was the first to create this.
Who created the world's first empire?
Some of Hammurabi's laws were written with this idea in mind.
What is an eye for an eye?
a permanent army of paid soldiers
What is a standing army?
Ruler of the New Babylonian Empire.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Who were kings, his family, nobles, and military leaders?
Nebuchadnezzar is said to have created this ancient wonder.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Officials duties. (name at least 3)
governed the cities day to day activities, controlled surpluses of food, collected taxes, settled disputes, took part in making new laws
collection of laws that Hammurabi organized
What is Hammurabi's code?
Was the first to create a standing army
Who was Sargan?
Made up the middle class in Sumerian Society
Who were merchants, craftworkers, scribes, and farmers?
What two systems did Assyrians create?
What are postal systems and system of paved roads?
The capital of the Akkadian empire and most splendid city.
What is Akkad?
vast lands and varied people under the control of a single government.
What is an empire?
Ruler of Lagash
Sumerian women had all of these rights.
Divorce cruel husbands, run businesses, own property, train to become priestesses or scribes
Assyrians learned about these two things from the Hittites.
What are chariots and iron weapons?
Sumerians' two most important gods