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Mesopotamian Empires
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a group of many different lands under one ruler | Empire |
| payment made to a ruler as a sign of surrender | Tribute |
| a district within the larger country or empire | Province |
| a group f merchants traveling for safety, usually with a large number of camels | Caravan |
| a person who studies stars, planets and the moon | Astronomer |
| Who is the Akkadian leader who united Akkad and Sumer and created the first empire | Sargon |
| What group of people / city-state did Sargon conquer | Sumer |
| One of the biggest cities in ancient Mesopotamia | Babylon |
| An Amorite, and King of Babylon, who created the worlds first written code of law | Hammurabi |
| The world's first written set of a laws or rules | Hammurabi's Code of Law |
| What is a "Code" ? | a system or set of laws |
| This empire made people they defeated pay tribute | Assyrians |
| What made the Assyrians so strong? | Their IRON weapons. (people they defeated only had tin and copper) |
| The king rebuilt Babylon and made it the richest and largest city in the world and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon | King Nebuchadnezzar |
| Contributions of NEW Babylonian Empire? | ~Hanging Gardens of Babylon ~Promoted trade ~Studied stars, planets & moon ~Made first Sundial ~First to follow a 7 day week |