Ch. 4-2 Mesopotamian Empires

Who created the first empire?

• Banana Man
• Sargon
• Hammmurabi
• ChickenBlob

A land under one ruler.

• Akkad
• Empire
• Hawaii
• Provinces

What was Hammurabi's Code?

• A set of laws for his empire
• A business
• Using the bathroom
• Conquering every land

Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

• Hanging Gardens

• King's Palace

• Mesopotamian Wall

• Irrigation System

a group of traveling merchants

• caravan

• astronomer

• province

• scribe

a political district

• Ninevah

• astronomer

• province

• Nebuchadnezzar

one who studies the stars and planets

• Ninevah

• astronomer

• province

• Nebuchadnezzar

What empire conquered an area and then burned the crops, robbed people, destroyed levees, and forced people to pay tribute?

• Babylonian Empire
• Akkadian Empire
• Chaldean Empire
• Assyrian Empire

Hammurabi's Code was a set of rules described as

• An eye for an eye
• short and not well defined
• giving women no rights
• the Ten Commandments

After the death of Nebuchadnezzar, a series of weak kings ruled the Chaldean empire.  Which empire conquered the Chaldeans?

• Persians
• Assyrian
• Akkadian
• Babylonian