the land, rivers

the river, islands

the pyramid, desert trees

the fortress, trees

cuneiform is wedged writing on clay tablets

it is a deadly weapon the Romans used for mass destruction

it is thorns and was used to trap animals

Sargon

Hammurabi

Sennacherib

Sargon

Hammurabi

Sennacherib

Sargon

Hammurabi

Sennacherib

a. to show the power he had to punish anyone in the kingdom

b. to make sure that everyone could see and follow the same set of laws

c. to help visitors to Babylon understand the customs of its people

d. to give the people of Babylon opportunities to comment on and change unjust laws.

a. Hammurabi's code treated people of all social classes as equals

b. Hammurabi's code established a religious reason for all punishments

c. Hammurabi's code established a set of slandered punishments for crimes.

d. Hammurabi's code increased the power of judges and rulers to decide punishments

a. it allowed the city states to become even more independent as they developed their own symbols

b. it helped the city states develop written constitutions, which protected citizens from being conquered by foreign enemies.

c. it allowed the city states to unify and communicate more efficiently.

d. it helped the city states to create their own laws, which kept them separated from other city states.

a. Hammurabi

b. Darius

c. Cyrus

d. Sargon

a. Ashurbanipal

b. Sargon

c. Hammurabi

d. Cyrus

d. the ruler of the Babylonian empire from 1792 to 1750, who expanded the empire

i. a belief of many gods or goddesses

e. a political unit that includes a city and nearby farmlands

j. having little rainfall and warm temperature

g. fair treatment of people, in keeping with the law.

f. an area of rich soil in the middle east.

a. an ancient region of southern Mesopotamia, in which civilization arose

b. a set of written rules for people to obey

a picture or drawing

code of laws

e. a political unit that includes a city and nearby farmland

j. having little rainfall and warm temperature

f. an area of rich soil in the middle east, stretching from the Mediterranean sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian gulf

h. a picture or drawing

b a set of written rules people nee to obey.

i. a belief in many gods or goddesses

a. an ancient region of southern mesopotamia, in which civilization arose

a ziggurat

h. a picture or drawing tht represents a word or an idea in an early system of writing.

i. a belief in many gods or goddesses

j. having little rainfall and warm temperatures.

c. a group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme ruler.

g. fair treatment of people, in keeping with the law.

h. a picture or drawing that represents a word or an idea in an early system of writing

g. fair treatment of people, in keeping with the law.a political unit that includes a city and nearby farmlands.

i. a belief in many gods or goddesses

e. political unit that includes a city and nearby farmlands.

b. a set of written rules for people to obey.

e. political unit that includes a city and nearby farmlands.

i. a belief in many gods or goddesses.