Sumerians
Mesopotamia is located in modern day
Iraq
___?___ Was the leader of the first Empire
Sargon
Assyrians kings claimed: a. Absolute power b. Democracy
a. Absolute power
Lived in what is today southwestern__________.
Iran
Mesopotamia is known as:
The land between 2 rivers/ The Cradle of civilization
Name of temples with massive step towers.
Ziggurats
After the Akkadian empire, the next great empire in Mesopotamia was called the:
Babylonians
Assyrians used _______________ as an instrument of warfare.
terror
He demonstrated wisdom and compassion by Treating conquered people well and allowing to keep custom and religion.
Cyrus the Great
Contributed most to the rich soil of Mesopotamia:
a. Silt b. rain fall
Silt
government in which the religious and political leader is the same.
theocracy
___?____ is a large political unit or state, usually under a single leader, that controls many peoples or territories.
EMPIRE
Babylonia was a small city South of Akkad, near present day ____?______, Iraq.
Baghdad
After his death his son _________ took over expanded the Empire to Egypt but also failed many battles. A. Naram-sim B. Cambyses
B. Cambyses
Developed around two rivers:
Tigris and Euphrates
Name of the first system of writing
cuneiform
the Akkadians, invaded the ___________ and set up the first empire in world.
Name of the First code of law in history
Hammurabi code
Created the world’s largest empire to that time.
Darius
Trade was done by _____________or exchange of goods without using money.
bartering
Only people that knew how to read and write in Mesopotamia were known as:
scribes
At its height, the Akkadian empire included: A. lands as far as Egypt. B. all of Mesopotamia and lands westward to the Mediterranean
b. all of Mesopotamia and lands westward to the Mediterranean
Developed an efficient system of communication, a network that used relays (horses,mules or donkeys in the mountains) to carry messages.
Assyrians
Religion of the Persian. First monotheistic
Zoroastrians
Land between the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf was known as:
Fertile Crescent