Mesopotamian Empires

a group of many kingdoms

• Sargon

• empire

• code

• emperor

Hammurabi's code

• a list of laws that dealt with crimes, farming, business

• forced payments

• an emperor

• an area of Mesopotamia

tribute

• People who study heavenly bodies, like the stars

• a way to water crops

• an Assyrian King

• forced payment from conquered

provinces

• empire divided into political districts

• military

• system to water crops

• a list of laws with punishments

caravans

• a scientist that studies the stars

• an city-state in Mesopotamia

• large vans used to drive

• merchants traveling to cities in large groups to trade

astronomers

• a scientist

• people who study heavenly bodies like the moon and stars

Put the Mesopotamian emperors in order from the first emperor to the last.

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Assyrian Kings

• King Nabopolassar

• Nebuchadnezzar

Babylon's Hanging Gardens were considered on of the Seven Wonders of the _____

______ created the world's first known empire.

Hammurabi's Code was...

• stricter than the old Sumerian laws

• was not strict

• known as "an eye for an eye"

• known as "a tooth for a tooth"