Mesopotamian Empires

As Sumer's power faded, who formed the world's first empire?

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Sargon the Great

How did Sargon become an emperor over Sumer?

• The throne was given to him because he was an heir

• He conquered Sumerian city-states with his army

Which Babylonian king conquered Amorite cities and created his own empire?

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Sargon the Great

What did Hammurabi accomplish as emperor?

• He made up a new spoken language.

• He destroyed the city of Babylon

• He made a written code of laws to govern his people with some fairness

Hammurabi created the world's first empire.

• True

• False

What was considered the "grandest" Mesopotamian city?

• Sumer

• Akkad

• Babylon

• Nineveh

Hammurabi was a king of the Babylonian empire.

• True

• False

Hammurabi was king of what empire?

• Akkadian
• Babylonian
• Amorites
• Assyrian

Sargon became known as the king of ___________________.

• Sumer
• Akkad
• Mesopotamia
• Sumer and Akkad

Who is Sargon?

• a goblet a king drinks out of
• a principal
• an ambitious leader who ruled the people of Akkad
• a bone in which the Mesopotamians worshipped