Vast lands and varied people that come under the control of a single government
What is an empire?
100
Something Assryians learned from the Hittites.
What is how to make and use chariots/iron weapons?
100
Three innovations of Babylonians
What are a system of taxation, a set of laws, and centralized government?
100
New ways of doing things
What are innovations?
200
Reasons Sumerians developed writing system
What is to keep government records?
200
Set of laws written down in a clear and orderly way
What is a code?
200
A large division of a country
What is a territory?
200
Full name of Mrs. Moxley's cat
What is Meesha Maria Precious Baby Moxley?
200
Mesopotamia means this.
What is land between the rivers?
300
Lowest social class in Sumer
What are farmworkers and slaves?
300
This is the reason the kings of Babylon taxed the people.
What is the kings wanted the people to pay for the running of the government?
300
An official order or decision made by a ruler
What is a decree?
300
Word for when each person gives up some of what he or she wants
What is compromise?
300
Name of language created by Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
400
Sargon is best known 1) creating a system of taxation 2) creating the first laws 3) creating the world's first empire 4) the centralization of government
What is creating the world's first empire?
400
The Kassites conquered Babylon by doing this.
What is waiting until the Hittites left the city.
400
A person who wrote things for others
Who is a scribe?
400
Two rivers of Ancient Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
Highest level in social pyramed
Who were the kings and his family?
500
Sumerians had an en, who ruled as a king. This type of government is known as a ______________.
What is monarchy?
500
Most important set of laws in the Babylonian Empire.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
500
After Medes conquered the Assyrian Empire this city became the center of civilization in Mesopotamia.