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Vocabulary
Rulers
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A forced payment made to a ruler as a sign of surrender.
What is a tribute?
100
The man who created the world's first empire by uniting Sumer and Akkad.
Who is Sargon?
100
The first empire, beginning around 2300 BC
What is Akkad
100
These rulers were brutal and cruel and eventually overthrown by the Chaldeans
What are Assyrians?
100
A belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
200
A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels.
What is a caravan?
200
He created a set of 282 laws known as an eye for an eye.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
This empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
What is Babylon?
200
This king collected high taxes and tributes to maintain his extravagant empire.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
200
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams
What is irrigation?
300
A person who studies planets and stars
What is an astronomer?
300
He made Babylon the largest and richest city in the world
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
300
This empire is known for its large, cruel army
What is Assyria?
300
These people came to the city to trade goods and made Babylon wealthy
What are merchants?
300
This empire worshiped Sumerian deities
What is Akkad?
400
A large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler.
What is an empire?
400
These people overthrew the Chaldeans.
Who are the Persians?
400
This empire used iron weapons
What is Assyria?
400
This set of laws were strict and harsher than old Sumerian laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
Nebuchadnezzar built these for his wife in Babylon
What are hanging gardens?
500
A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
What is a province?
500
He created the first Babylonian Empire
Who is Hammurabi?
500
This empire was ruled by Hammurabi and later Nebuchadnezzar
What is Babylon?
500
This was known as the grandest city in the world?
What is Babylon?