SUMER
CONQUESTS
EMPIRE BUILDING
ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
LATER EMPIRES
100
A person who buys and sells goods to make a living
What is a merchant
100
The practice of requiring people to pay for the running of the govenment
What is taxation
100
The first powerful Babylonian monarch.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
includes the first system of paved roads, the first postal system, and the division of land into territories
What are Assyrian achievements?
200
Ruling class, Middle class, Working class
What are the divisions of society in Sumer
200
Became the leader of the world's first empire in 2350 B.C.
Who is Sargon the Great
200
They looted the city of Babylon and left it for the Kassities to control
Who are the Hititties?
200
a military activity undertaken by one nation to weaken or destroy another
What is warfare?
200
God of War
Who is Ninurta?
300
A form of ancient writing in southwest Asia
What is a cuneiform
300
A two wheeled, horse drawn cart used in ancient time to carry soldiers into battle
What is a cart?
300
Ruled the "land between the two rivers" from 1595 B.C. to 1000 B.C.
Who are the Kassities?
300
a wall carving that stands ut from the surface of a building?
What is a relief
400
The world's first written language
What is Sumerian?
400
Gained control of southern Mesopotamia in 1900 B.C.
Who are the Amorites
400
control of all the trade routes to southwestern Asia
What was the goal of the Assyrian Empire?
400
a second name for the New Babylonian Empire
What is Neo-Babylonian Empire?
500
Dikes, reservoirs, canals, drainage of marshes, wheeled carts pulled by animals and division of labor
What are farming innovations?
500
Vast lands and varied people that come under control of a single government.
What is an empire?
500
A form of government in which the national government maintains the power.
What is a centralized government?
500
Attached and destroyed Babylon in 689 B.C.
Who is King Sennacherib
500
Turned Nineveh into the beautiful Assyrian capital
Who is King Sennacherib
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