chapter3: early empires in the ancient near east

in the patriarchal Mesopotamian society

A husband to divorce his wife if she failed in her duties

one example of the assyrians' effectiveness as administrators was

A system of carrying messages quickly with a relay of horses

Ramses II tried to maintain egyptian strength, he failed because he couldn't hold out against

The sea peoples

The Code of Hammurabi paint a portrait of a society in which

almost anything that can go wrong is addressed by a law

The term for a large political units/state under 1 leader, controlling many territories is

an emprie

in hummurabis code, punishments generally followed the principle of retaliation or the idea of

and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

during the new Kingdom, the Egyptian empire reached its peak as shown by

building huge magnificent temples and statues in their honor

what military strategy did hammurabi use to conquer lands and create a new Mesopotamian kingdom

by arming trained soldiers then using them to divide and conquer

which leader of the persian empire expanded it into the largest in the world

darius

while the hyksos attacked the Egyptians from horse-drawn chariots, the egyptians were limited to

donkey carts

Hammurabi is remembered for

establishing a collection of laws for Mesopotamian society

Cyrus the great showed such wisdom and compassion when he conquered Babylon that

everyone excepted him as a ruler

what is most unusual about the pharaoh hatshepsut

hatshepsut was a woman

being conquered by the hyksos had the benefit for the Egyptians in that they learned

how to make bronze weapons and use chariots

The Prophet zoroaster taught that

humans had free choice

The Assyrians had the first large armies who carried weapons made of

iron

why did the kingdom of Kush become such a successful trading empire

it was rich in natural resources and on an important route

which contributed to the efficient communication crucial to the persian empire

maintained roads, food and shelter, and fresh horses

sargons empire was continued by his grandson_____________ but the less than 100 years after his death

naram-sin

The king of the chaldeans who rebuilt Babylon was

nebuchadnezzer II

around 2340 BC the Sumerian city-states were conquered by the akkadians under their leader

sargon

Cyrus was called "the great" because he

showed wisdom and compassion

The first empire in world history was

the akkadian empire

why did the Egyptians resist akhenatens religious reforms

they excepted and didn't want to reject or destroy them

darius's elite infantry forces were known as the immortals because

whenever a soldier was killed, he immediately was replaced