Mesopotamia
What is Mesopotamia?
A region.
The main type of governing city structure during this period.
What is a City-State
How did the Akkadians take over the majority of the region?
Conquest.
What is Hammurabi's greatest contribution to the ancient world?
Hammurabi's Code
From what area of Mesopotamia does the Assyrian Empire rule?
The northern region.
The two rivers that allowed this region to prosper.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Sumerians lived during this age predominantly.
Who was the first and most prominent ruler of the Akkadian Empire?
Sargon of Akkad.
Hammurabi's law code can be summarized by what phrase?
Eye for an Eye
During what age did the Assyrian Empire take over the majority of Mesopotamia?
Iron Age.
Mesopotamia's nickname
Fertile Crescent
The two most prominent cities in the region.
What are Uruk and Ur?
Was Sargon Akkadian or Sumerian?
Akkadian
What, other than the law code, was Babylon's greatest achievement in Mesopotamia?
Unification of Mesopotamia.
What was the Assyrian solution to getting through city walls easier than chisels and ladders?
Siege weapons.
How many Civilizations have we talked about in the region?
4
The demigod King of Sumer in ancient myth.
Who is Gilgamesh.
Sargon and his empire were one of the world's first what?
Empire and Emperor.
From which god does Hammurabi get his code?
Shamash
Assyrian chest armor made from layered plates.
Lamellar
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers.
The dates when the Sumerians held dominance of the region.
When was 4000-2000 B.C.E.
When did Sargon's conquest start?
What was the Stele that Hammurabi's code was engraved on made of?
Diorite.
In an empire filled with aggressive rulers, who was the calmest and most academically focused
Ashurbanipal