Mesopotamian Empires

What was the first world empire?

• Akkadian

• Babylonian

• Assyrian

• Chaldean

This kingdom developed in northern Mesopotamia.

• Sargon
• Sumer
• Akkad
• Akkadians

Hammurabi was king of what empire?

• Akkadian
• Babylonian
• Amorites
• Assyrian

His name means "the true king"?

• Hammurabi
• Benjamin
• GooberSnifflephhhh
• Sargon

Sargon became known as the king of ___________________.

• Sumer
• Akkad
• Mesopotamia
• Sumer and Akkad

What was the greatest city the Amorites built?

• Babylon
• Babyland
• Babstuffer
• Bowl

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

One reason Hammurabi's code is famous is that

• it was the first set of laws recorded in writing

• it was written in a sophisticated code that took years for historians to translate

• it was beautifully written on a single giant stone of polished basalt

• it was the first set of laws to rhyme to help people remember them