Mesopotamian Empires

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

New Babylon made so many beautiful goods that people would travel long distances in travelling groups called

• carpools
• caravans
• nomads
• pilgrimmages

The New Babylonian Empire was most famous for the 

• use of iron 
• size of the empire
• strength of the military
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Most of Sumer's 12 city-states were built around...

• the Nile River

• the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• the Red Sea

• The Kings River

Most people in Sumer were...

• merchants

• slaves

• farmers

Sumer's upper class included kings and ...

• merchants

• priests

• farmers

• Slaves

Who was the person to unite Sumer and Akkad and create the world's first empire?

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

• King Tut

Who founded the Babylonian Empire?

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

• King Tut

What made the Assyrian army so powerful?

• Their 50,000 soldiers

• Their brutality

• Iron weapons

• All of the above

What were the political districts that Assyrian kings divided their land into called?

• tributes

• empires

• regions

• provinces