📚 VOCABULARY
A large territory made up of many different lands and peoples under one ruler.
Empire
The Babylonian ruler best known for creating a famous collection of laws.
Hammurabi
The ruler who conquered Sumer and created the Akkadian Empire.
Sargon
The people known for using a powerful army to build an empire.
Assyrians
The Persian ruler who conquered the Medes and built the Persian Empire.
Cyrus the Great
A written collection of laws.
Hammurabi's Code
The famous set of nearly 300 laws created during Hammurabi's rule.
Hammurabi's Code
The empire created when Sargon conquered Sumer.
Akkadian Empire
The empire that was known for the Hanging Gardens.
New Babylonian Empire
The Persian ruler who improved communication by building a system of roads.
Darius I
The capital city that became the center of Hammurabi's empire.
Babylon
The large stone slab on which Hammurabi's Code was carved.
Stele
The event that helped Sargon establish one of history's first empires.
Conquering Sumer
The Babylonian ruler associated with rebuilding Babylon and the Hanging Gardens.
Nebuchadnezzar II
Officials who governed different parts of the Persian Empire.
Satraps
A group of people with a shared history and culture.
Civilization
Hammurabi's Code was displayed publicly so people could see these.
The laws
The city-state and surrounding lands that formed the center of Sargon's empire.
Akkad
The people known for their seafaring skills and extensive trade.
Phoenicians
The organized system used to govern the different regions of a large empire.
Provinces
A system in which people are divided into groups based on wealth, power, or occupation.
Social hierarchy
An important effect of Hammurabi's Code was its influence on the development of laws in this later civilization.
Ancient Rome
The type of ruler who controlled many different lands and peoples in an empire.
Emperor
The civilization that developed a 22-letter alphabet that influenced later writing systems.
Phoenician civilization
The system of roads that helped the Persian Empire improve communication.
Royal Road