Early Empires

What is an empire?

• a city with its surrounding farmlands

• the central part of a neighborhood

• brings together many different peoples and lands under the control of one ruler.

• a large town

A person who rules

• Emperor

• Lawyer

• Doctor

• Teacher

Fertile Crescent

• A political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands

• An area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf

• A culture that flourished between 900 and 200B.C.E.

• A social class that a person belongs to by birth

Who was Hammurabi?

• A mountain range along the northwestern border of India

• An ancient Indian culture, dating back to 2500 B.C.E. that included the people of the entire Indus River region

• A Chinese dynasty begun in 202 B.C.E. by Liu Bang, which reunified China

• the ruler of the Babylonian Empire from 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. who expanded the empire

Code of Law

• A social class that a person belongs to by birth

• A political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmland

• A set of written rules for people to obey

• A steep waterfall

Fair treatment of people in keeping with the law

• Kush

• Judaism

• Gospel

• Justice

Stele

• An upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument or marker

• A thing in its most perfect form

• A system for creating order and providing leadership

• A naturally formed feature of Earth's land surface

Forced removal from one's homeland

• Emperor

• Gentile

• Fable

• Exile

Tribute

• The basis of the law of the Israelites

• People's application of knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs

• A women or knitted cloth

• A payment o money or goods by one ruler to another in order to ensure protection

An artificial mountain covered with trees and plants, built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife.

• Hemisphere

• Hatshepsut

• Hanging Gardens of Babylon

• Marathon