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?