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Vocabulary
Civilization in Sumer
Conquests and Empire Building
Later Empires
Vocabulary Part II
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A new way of doing things.
What is Innovation?
100
Farmworkers and slaves.
What was the lowest class in Sumerian society?
100
Created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
100
The empire which replaced the Assyrian Empire.
What is the New Babylonian Empire?
100
An extra supply.
What is surplus?
200
The sharing of large jobs so that each worker does only part of it.
What is Division of Labor?
200
An innovation that Sumerian farmers used to control river flooding.
What are dikes?
200
Rulers of the Babylonian Empire.
Who were the Amorites?
200
Two groups who conquered Mesopotamia after the collapse of the Babylonian Empire.
Who are the Hittites and the Kassites?
200
A disagreement between two or more people or groups.
What is Conflict?
300
A drawing or symbol used to represent a word.
What is a Pictograph?
300
Two rivers in the Assyrian Empire that were important in Sumer.
What are the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
300
Located in Akkad and in the central Euphrates River valley.
What is the capital city of Sargon's empire?
300
Locks and keys; lances and battering rams; the first postal system.
What are Assyrian innovations?
300
A form of ancient writing in southwest Asia.
What is Cuneiform?
400
A system of government in which one person has complete control.
What is Absolute Authority?
400
Reservoirs; building dikes; building canals; using wheeled carts pulled by animals; division of labor.
What are innovations that helped the Sumerians grow enough food?
400
Under this principle, breaking another person's arm in anger is punished by having your own arm broken.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
A system of paved roads; postal system; local government.
What are innovations that helped to unite the peoples of the Assyrian Empire?
400
The system of government in which a king or a queen rules.
What is Monarchy?
500
A form of government in which the national government maintains the power.
What is Centralized Government?
500
Standard units for area, the acre, the quart for volume; a calendar for months and years.
What are innovations that the Sumerians developed for measuring?
500
Sargon served in the army, killed his own king, built an army loyal to him, and defeated the city-states in battle.
What is how the Akkadian Empire began?
500
Turned Nineveh into the beautiful Assyrian capital.
Who is King Sennacherib?
500
Vast lands and varied people that come under control of a single government.
What is an Empire?