The First Empires and Sargon
Sargon and Hammurabi
Hammurabi’s Code
100
2,400 BC – city-states weakened by _____ , powerful kingdoms arose in northern _____ and _____, rulers of the kingdoms built _____
What is conflict, Mesopotamia, Syria, and empires?
100
Sargon eventually conquered all of _____, his empire lasted for more than _____ years.
What is Mesopotamia and 200?
100
Hammurabi was thought to be a _____ ruler, best known for creating the _____ of his empire.
What is just and laws?
200
Define empire.
What is group of many different lands under one ruler?
200
The _____ lived in the region west of _____. In the 1,800’s BC they conquered _____ and build their own _____. _____ was the grandest of these cities.
What is Amorites, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia, cities, and Babylon?
200
Hammurabi posted this _____ for all to read. The code dealt with _____, _____, _____, _____, and the _____. He listed a punishment for each _____
What is code, crimes, farming, business, marriage, family, and crime?
300
Empires spread over a wide region through _____ and _____.
What is conquest and trade?
300
Babylon was located on the _____ bank of the _____ River. In circa 1,792 BC the _____ king named _____ began conquering cities controlled by the _____ to the _____ and _____
What is eastern, Euphrates, Babylonian, Hammurabi, Amorites, north, and south?
300
The Code of Hammurabi was _____ than the old _____ law code.
What is stricter and Sumerian?
400
Sargon was ruler of _____ who were known as the _____. 2,340 BC Sargon moved his well trained _____ to the south.
What is Akkad, Akkadians, and armies?
400
Hammurabi created the _____ empire.
What is Babylonian?
400
the code demanded what became known as “_____ _____ _____ _____ _____, _____ _____ _____ _____ _____”
What is "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth"?
500
Sargon conquered remaining _____ one by one, he united the conquered territory with the kingdom of _____. He became known as the king of _____ and _____ which formed the world’s first _____
What is city-states, Akkad, Sumer, Akkad, and empire?
500
The Babylonian Empire stretched from the ______ Gulf to the _____ Sea going through the _____-_____ valley
What is Persian, Mediterranean, and Tigris-Euphrates?
500
In Hammurabi's Code the _____ for the crime should match the _____ of the crime. This was meant to help do away with _____ feuds or endless violence between rival families or groups.
What is punishment, seriousness, and blood?