Ancient Civilizations

Hammurabi wrote his code of laws concerning all aspects of life in which empire?

the Sumerian mathematical system is based on the division of the ______ into 360 degrees.

The Assyrians spoke a ____ language

Persian prophet

society in the fertile crescent was built around cooperation for _____ and irrigation

people who frequently move from place to place

having no life

to take on the beliefs or customs of a culture that is not your own

The cavalry--soldiers on horseback-- was used for the first time in which empire?

A code of laws that were an eye for an eye.

high ceilings made by building a series of arches

Conquered peoples were allowed to keep their own religions and laws under the ____

The most striking Sumerian temples were known as?

long narrative poem that tells the story of a hero

The Sumerians built rounded roofs in the shape of vaults or domes after they invented the ____

languages that share an original source?

The Sumerians may have been the first to use the _______ on carts and wagons.

the hiding of the sun by the moon; a shadow on the moon created by the Earth

the spot where organized human communities began

family of rulers

barriers built to control or confine water

Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt Babylon into a magnificent city with hanging gardens. What empire?

money as a measure of value

belief in one god

to melt metal; refine

movement of people into a region

Sumerian pictographs (words/letter) were made with a wedge-shaped tool called a ______

Sargon's great empire, the ___, extended as far as the Mediterranean.

built ziggurats, did not believe in rewards after death, often invaded by wandering tribes

People began to smelt iron in which empire?