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Vocab I
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100
This is a collection of many peoples and lands under the control of one ruler.
What is an empire?
100
This is the land within modern-day Turkey.
What is Anatolia?
100
This term means the acceptance of habits, beliefs, and practices of others.
What is toleration?
100
This is the term for a person who moves form place to place.
What is a nomad?
100
This man set up a law code based on Hammurabi's model.
Who is Darius?
200
This is the ruler of an empire.
What is an emperor?
200
This was a magnificent structure of grades built in Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
200
This is a political division of a country.
What is a province?
200
This is the act of moving from one place to settle in another.
What is migration?
200
Nebuchadnezzar was the leader of this people.
Who are the Chaldeans?
300
This is a region that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
This is money paid to a conquering ruler for protection.
What is tribute?
300
This is the name for a Persian governor.
What is a satrap?
300
This is the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
This people were so powerful that the Medes and Chaldeans had to join forces to defeat them.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
This was the ruler of the Babylonian Empire from 1792 to 1750 BC.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This term means the forced removal from one's homeland.
What is exile?
400
This was a road in Persia used for government purposes.
What is the Royal Road?
400
This is the fine soil deposited by flood waters.
What is silt?
400
This man built the Akkadian empire.
Who is Sargon?
500
This is a set of written rules.
What is a code of law?
500
This term means the fair treatment of people.
What is justice?
500
This man was tolerant of the Hebrews and allowed them to rebuild their temple.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
500
This the term for a period of little rainfall.
What is drought?
500
This is sometimes called the "eye for an eye" code.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?