Human Ingenuity in Mesopotamia Chapter 6

A series of monarchs belonging to the same family withing a country.

• empire

• dynasty

• satrapies

• sargon

A collection of laws that regulated the lives of the inhabitants and established a justice system.

• irrigation system

• monotheistic

• code of Ur-Nammu

• code of Hammurabi

King who unified several city states in Mesopotamia in 2340 BC and formed the Akkadian empire the first in history.

• Cyrus II

• satrapies

• Babylon

• sargon

One of four regions where the Mesopotamian civilization developed.

• Babylon

• Cyrus II

• Darius I

• Hammurabi

Who amassed enough power to conquer rival cities and establish the first Babylonian empire.

• Babylon

• Cyrus II

• Darius I

• Hammurabi

A collection of 282 laws that apply to all the inhabitanst of his vast, dicerse empire.

• Irrigation system

• Code of Ur-Nammu

• Code of Hammurabi

• Monotheistic

Structures that were designed for storing and distributing water for crops.

• Irrigation systems

• Dynasty

• Cuneiform writing

• Dynasty

The first writing system to evolve in Sumer Mesopotamia around 3000 BC.

• Irrigation System

• Monotheistic

• Hammurabi

• Cuneiform writing

King who founded the Persian Empire in 549 BC, the largest empire in history intil then; he conquered Babylon in 539 BC.

• Babylon

• Cyrus II

• Hammurabi

• Darius I

One of the great kings of the Achaemenid dynasty, who sat on the throne of the Persian Empire between 522-486 BC.

• Cyrus II

• Hammurabi

• Darius I

• Babylon