Mesopotamia City-States

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Villiage

• Culture

For what achievement is Sargon best known? 

• Building the Hanging Gardens for his wife
• Creating the world's first empire
• Inventing peanut butter
• Creating the first code of laws

What is an empire?

• a group of states, nations, or people under a single ruler

• a group with same laws, religion and language

• a group with several rulers

• a group that shares the same culture or way of life

Sumer's city-states were weakened by what? 

• Sargon
• conflict
• Syria
• Egypt

A land under one ruler.

• Akkad
• Empire
• Hawaii
• Provinces

What problem caused by Sumerian city-states' independence from one another?

• They were unable to trade crops with one another.

• They could not defend themselves against stronger groups.

• They had very few different natural resources available.

A problem that all four Mesopotamian empires had was difficulty in...

• controlling such a large area

• choosing strong leaders

• trading with other empires