Persian Empire
This person lead the Persian empire to a victory over Medes
Who is Cyrus the Great?
These people would fight on horses for the Assyrian empire.
What is a calvalry?
This is the what the land is called where Mesopotamia is located
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is what Persia's standing army called
What is the "Immortals"?
This is the number that Persia always had in their standing army
What is 10,000?
Ashurbanipal made this city his capital.
What is Nineveh?
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This year Sargon died
What is 2279 b.c.e?
This is what the set of laws Hammurabi created was called
What is Hammurabi's Code?
What is 530 b.c.e?
These were the smaller units of government in the Assyrian empire.
What is provinces?
What year was the battle of Umma and Lagash
What is 2450 b.c.e?
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This is the name of the ancient writing on clay tablets
What is Cuneiform?
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This year Babylon and the rest of Mesopotamia fell under the Persian's empire control.
What is 539 b.c.e?
True or False: Assyrians used copper weapons and tools.
What is False? They used iron tools because they were stronger and more durable
This is what a city-state means
What is a city-state is a city that has its government and law?
What is all the rivers made fertile soil for growing crops. The area is also shaped like a crescent moon.
True or False? Darius the Great lead the Persian empire east to the Indus Valley?
What is True?
Around what year did the Assyrian empire expand from the Persian Gulf across the entire Fertile Crescent and into southwest Egypt
What is 600 b.c.e.?
How was most trade done
What is by bartering?
What is Polytheism?
What is the belief of spirits of animals?