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