Chapter 3

meroe

A city in Kush

Empire

A large political unit usually with a single later that controls many territories

assyrians

A people known for using terror as an instrument of warfare

Everyone accepted him as ruler

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

Whatever soldier was killed he was immediately replaced

Darius' elite calvary and infantry forces were known as the immortals because

establishing a collection of laws for Mesopotamian society

Hammurabi was remembered for

Give an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth

In a Hammurabi's code punishments generally follow the principle of retaliation or the idea that one must

sea peoples

Invaders who attacked the Egyptian empire during its final days of power

Sargon

Leader who established the worlds first empire

Almost anything that can go wrong is addressed by one law or another

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

Persia

The empire ruled by Cyrus the great

naram sin

The empire that sock on established with continued by his grandson______but felt less than 100 years after his grandsons death

akkadian empire

The first empire in the world was the

Amenhotep IV

The pharaoh who later changed his name to Akhenaten

Satrap

The ruler of a province in the Persian empire

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

They excepted many gods and did not like the idea of rejecting are destroying them to warship only one God

Why did the egyptians resist Akhenatens religious reforms

Nubia

name of Kush while it was still a part of the egyptian empire

Nebuchadnezzar 2

the Chaldean King who restored Babylon to glory

Iron

the assyrians had the first large armies to to use weapons made of

Donkey carts

well the hyksos attacked egyptians from horse drawn chariots the egyptian soldiers were limited to

Hatshepsut was a woman

what is the most unusual thing about the pharaoh hatshesput

Darius

which leader of the Persian empire expanded it into the largest empire the world had yet seen