Akkadian Empire

Mesopotamia, a Greek word for ancient country of Iraq, means...

• very, very old

• No one knows

• Iraq

• the land between rivers

Sargon the Great's story of birth [being placed in a basket and floated down a river] and growing up is similar to the story of ________ from the Hebrew Bible?

• Joshua

• Abraham

• Moses

• Isaiah

Sargon the Great, with the use of his army, created the world's FIRST?

• Country

• Kingdom

• Religion

• Empire

What peoples came before the Akkadians in the land of Mesopotamia?

• Babylonians

• Sumerians

• Assyrians

• Persians

What language did the Akkadians speak?

• Sumerian

• Babylonian

• Asyrian

• Akkadian

What Akkadian leader rose to power and first united Mesopotamia under one rule?

• Sargon The Great

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Naram-Sin

What was Naram-Sin famous for?

• He was the Babylonian ruler who conquered the Akkadians

• He was a scribe who wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh

• He was ruler of the Akkadian Empire during its peak

• He was the god of the Sun and the primary god of the city of Uruk

Who is Naram-Sin?

• Friend of Sargon the Great

• Relative of Sargon the Great

• Son of Sargon the Great

• Grandson of Sargon the Great

Sargon introduced the concept of the dynasty to an empire. What was this?

• When a king would assign leaders to rule each city who reported in to him

• Another name for the civil service or administrators who worked for the government

• When the son of a king inherited his kingdom and became king when he died

• All of the above

Over time, the language of the Akkadians replaced that of the Sumerians.

• True

• False