Conquests and empire building

§ AROUND 3000 B.C, the strong city state of -------------------------- controlled all of Sumer.

• Ur

• Uruk

• Akkad

§ In about 2350 B. C, the city state had to battle a people from ------------------------whose leader was known as Sargon

• Central Mesopotamia

• East of Africa

• southern Asia

Sargon was once served in the army of------------, a city state in sumer

• Uruk

• Ur

• Kish

An --------------consists of vast area of lands and varied people that come under the control of a single government

• empire

• Kingdom

• country

§ The Empire was ruled from the capital city of ---------------- in the central Euphrates river valley

• Iran

• Kish

• Akkad

The lands united by Sargon became known as ----------------------

• Akkadian empire

• Babylonian empire

• Mesopotamia

As a symbol of Sargon’s ------------------- he ordered that every boundary pillar and the city wall be brought down with in his empire

• power

• Absolute authority

• government

Sargon maintained his rule by using force of his --------------and by the organization of his government

• army

• officilas

• buerocracy

§ Sargon was the first powerful leaders to keep a -----------------------

• standing army

• trade

• kingdom

In 2125 B.C, leaders in the Sumerian city states of Ur rebelled against -----------------empire

• Akkadian

• Uruk

• Kish