The Akkadian Empire
He was the ruler of the Akkadian empire
Who was Sargon the Great?
The ruler of the Babylonian empire.
Who was Hammurabi?
Feared for military might and cruelty.
Who are the Assyrians?
The ruler of the Neo - Babylonians.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
Created the world’s first empire
Who was Sargon the Great?
What was the Akkadian Empire?
Sargon used this military strategy to help conquer Mesopotamia.
What was taught soldiers to fight in tight formations?
Helped to unify and preserve order in the Babylonian Empire
What was the Hammurabi code of laws?
Siege warfare, Battering rams, and moveable towers
How did the Assyrians conquer Mesopotamia?
What re new weapons and war strategies?
One of the great wonders of the ancient world.
What are the hanging Gardens?
Lasted only 75 years.
What was the Neo–Babylonian Empire?
Sargon built up the capital city of Agade using.
What are tributes?
The city of Babylon
What was the capital of the Babylonian empire?
Two – dimensional sculptures
What are bas–reliefs ?
Nebuchadnezzar held this group of people captive and carried them away from their homeland.
Who were the Jews//Israelites?
Two Important Mesopotamian Rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Beautiful three-dimensional sculptures
What are steles?
They could own property and buy their freedom.
What are the rights of slaves?
This Empire stretched from Egypt to the Persian gulf making it the largest empire.
What was the Assyrian Empire?
The first sun–dial, 60 minutes in an hour, and 7 days in a week
What are cultural achievements of he Neo–Babylonians?
The smallest of the four empires.
What was the Babylonian empire?
The Akkadians borrowed from Sumerian culture
What are irrigation system, cuneiform, and religion?
Babylonians traded
What are grain, and woven cloth?
Carried water to Nineveh from over 30 miles away.
What are aqueducts?
An inner and wall built around the city of Babylon that were so thick that two chariots could pass each other on top of them.
What did Nebuchadnezzar build to keep Babylon safe?
What are the Ishtar Gates?
This empire lasted for 300 years.
What was the Assyrian Empire?