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