Mesopotamian
Flat, little resources, shrubs, Tigris, Euphrates, easily attacked land between the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea.
What is Mesopotamia?
What is Babylon?
Located in Northern Mesopotamia an area of rolling hills.
What is Assyria?
Chaldean Empire was ruled till 562 BCE.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II
Mountainous, hilly, valleys and plateaus, abundance of minerals and resources.
What is Persia?
He was the first Emperor in World History.
A powerful Amorite King.
Who was Hammurabi?
Assyrian King, had a library of over 20,000 tablets.
Who was Ashurbanipal?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
In an effort to reclaim Babylon's glory Nebuchadnezzar built these.
What were the Ishtar Gate, Hanging Gardens, and 300 foot Ziggurat.
Cyrus the Great was known for this.
What is the policy of Toleration?
He created the first universal equal code of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
Also known as Chaldeans.
Who were the Medes and Chaldeans?
To promote business and made paying taxes easier, Darius took this idea from the Lydians.
What is minted coin?
Placed in public for everyone to see, it suggest everyone has a right to know the laws and punishment for breaking them.
What is two Pillars.
This is how many codes of law Hammurabi had.
What was 282.
Assyrian Empire grew so large that they used native kings to help rule and send this to the Assyrian King.
What is Tribute?
Under Nebuchadnezzar's rule the Assyrian Empire captured these two lands.
What is Egypt and Syria?
Darius had enlarged the Empire so much that he used these to control all of it.
What are Provinces and Satraps?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The order of Empires in Mesopotamia.
What are the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Chaldean, and Persian Empire.
Hammurabi's code is sometimes also called.
What is Eye for an Eye code?
What are Syria, Babylonia, Egypt and Palestine?
The Chaldeans destroyed their temple and held thousands as captives in Babylon for 50 years.
Who are the Hebrews?
The Royal Road was 1775 miles long and used for these purposes.