World History Test chapter 3
Meroe
A city in Kush
Empire
A large political unit, usually with a single leader, that controls many territories
Assyrians
A people known for using terror as an instrument of ware fare
Everyone accepted him as a ruler
Cyrus the great showed such wisdom and compassion when he conquered Babylon that
Whenever a soldier was killed, he was immediately replaced
Darius's elite Calvary and infantry forces were known as the immortals because
Establishing a collection of laws of laws for Mesopotamian society
Hammurabi is remembered for what
•Effects are patriarchal •Society runs smoother •First set of laws to be written down •Similar to our laws today (marriage)
If anyone commits a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.... If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out --- To discuss the importance of the code and how it helps understand
Give an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
In Hammurabi's code, punishments generally followed the principle of retaliation, or the idea that one must.....
Sea Peoples
Invaders who attacked the Egyptian Empire during its final days of power
Iron
The Assyrians had the first large armies who carried weapons made of
Nebuchadnezzar II
The Chaldean king who restored Babylon to glory
Almost anything that can go wrong is addressed by one law or another
The code of Hammurabi paints a portrait of a society in which
Persia
The empire rules by Cyrus the Great
Naram-Sin
The empire that Sargon established was continued by his grandson ________ but fell less than 100 years after his grandson's death
The Akkadian empire
The first empire in world history was
Sargon
The leader who established the world's first empire
Nubia
The name of the Kush while it was still a part of the Egyptian empire
Amenhotep IV
The pharaoh who later changed his name to Akhenaten
Satrap
The ruler of a province in the Persian empire
Hatshepsut was a woman
What is most unusual about the pharaoh Hatshepsut?
Darius
Which leader of the Persian empire expanded it into the largest empire the world had yet seen?
Well-maintained roads and way stations to provide food, shelter, and fresh horses for traveling officials
Which of the following contributed to the efficient system of communication that was crucial to sustaining the Persian Empire?
Donkey carts
While the Hyksos attacked the Egyptians from horse-drawn chariots, the Egyptian soldiers were limited to.....
They accepted many gods, and did not like the idea of rejecting or destroying them to worship only one God.
Why did the Egyptians resist Akhenaten's religious reforms?