Religion Road
Polytheistic
He was the leader of the Akkadians and placed loyal people in charge of high government positions to help him rule.
Sargon
Who consisted of the lowest level of the social class pyramid?
Slaves
What was a permanent army of professional soldiers who were known as "The Immortals"
Standing Army
Why were people allowed to keep their religion and customs in the Persian empire?
So they would not rebel
Where was the Promised Land?
Caanan
Who was the king of Babylon and created a code that included an eye for an eye?
Hammurabi
What was the writing system in this society called?
Cuneiform
This empire divided it into 70 smaller units called provinces and assigned a governor to each. The ruler was Ashurbanipal
Assyrian Empire
True or False: Darius introduced currency to the Persian Empire
True
What are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible called in Judaism?
The Torah
Who led the Israelites out of slavery and into the Promised Land?
Moses
What did the Sumerians invent to help water their crops?
irrigation systems
Messages were able to be sent on horseback via this
Great Royal Road
Mesopotamia was in-between what two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
In sumerian society, what were the pyramid shaped brick towers known as?
ziggurats
He led the Persians to victory and expanded his empire all the way into Asia. He allowed his people to keep their own customs
Cyrus the Great
What was the trade called where they exchanged only goods and not money?
Barter
Name one advancement the Phoenicians invented.
Navigation
Alphabet
What is it called when an area is ruled by a distant country
A colony
What was the religion called in the Persian empire where the central belief is that the universe is in a state of struggle between the forces of good and evil, people have an important role to play to work for good and there is an afterlife
Zoroastrianism
When he took over, he had the people pay tribute to show loyalty.
Darius
What was the first city-state of Mesopotamia?
Uruk
How did the Phonecians use their geography to export goods?
Fish, purple dye, wood from forests
What is the term when cultural traits spread from one region to another
Cultural Diffusion