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Chapter 4 Mesopotamia Lesson 2: Mesopotamian Empires
I. The First Empires
A. The _________ ______ of __________ often fought each other.
1. By 2400 B.C. the fighting weakened these city-states.
2. The kingdom of ____________was in _______________________
____________________.Akkad's leader, __________________, and his armies fought the citystates of __________________.
3. Sargon defeated them all.
4. He united __________and ________ to form an _________.
5. An _________ is a group of _________ lands under______ ruler.
6. The empire of ________ was the ________ _________ empire ever formed.
7. The empire grew to include all of _______________. It lasted for more than ______ years.
8. A people called the Amorites lived in a region west of Mesopotamia and took over Mesopotamia in
the 1800s B.C. These people built their own _________.
9. The biggest of these cities was ____________. ______________ was a _________of
________________.
10. He took over many of the Amorite cities and formed the ______________________
______________.
B. Code of Hammurabi
1. _______________________ was a __________ ruler.
2. He made a code of _______ for his empire.
3. A code is a system or set of laws.
4. The ___________ ____ ______________ had laws for many different things. It had laws for
crimes, farming, and marriage.
5. The code had a _______________ for________ crime.
6. The code called for “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” This means that if a man knocked
out the teeth of someone, then the man would have his own teeth knocked out as punishment.
7. The________ of __________ __________ shaped later law codes, including those of
__________and ____________________.
C. The Assyrian Empire
1. The _______________ lived in northern Mesopotamia.
2. They built a large, powerful army.
3. Around 900 B.C., this army started to take over Mesopotamia.
4. The ___________ destroyed towns. They _________people and set _________ on ___________.
5. The ______________forced the people they defeated to pay them money. This forced payment is
called a _____________.
6. The Assyrian army was so strong because they made their weapons out of __________________.
____________ this, people made weapons out of _______________ or ___________.________ is
much _____________than tin or copper.
7. ______________was the major city of the Assyrian Empire and was located along the__________
River.
8. The empire was ruled by a king and was divided into regions called _____________.
9. The Assyrians used _________ ________ that had __________punishments.
10. The Assyrians worshiped the_________ gods as the __________________________________.
11. The______________ built large___________ and _____________ and wrote stories.
12. They put these works in a large _____________________ in Nineveh. It was one of the
__________________ libraries in the __________. The Assyrians did a large amount of
________________________, bringing in in wood and metal from far away.
13. They used these materials to make _____________, ___________, and ______________.
D. The Chaldean Empire
1. The Assyrian Empire lasted for about 300 years.
2. Around 650 B.C. the Assyrians began to argue about who would be the next ruler. Their arguments
turned into fights and _____________ the empire.
3. While the Assyrians were divided, a group of people called the Chaldeans fought the Assyrians and
defeated them.
4. The ______________ took over the lands held by the Assyrians and moved the____________ to
______________.
5. The empire of the Chaldeans is sometimes called the New Babylonian Empire. King Nabopolassar
was the first ruler. After he died, his son took control. His son was named ____________________.
E. King Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon
1. King Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt ________________________ making it the largest and
__________________ city in the __________________________. Large walls surrounded the city.
2. Babylon had many temples and palaces.
3. King Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging _____________________ of Babylon. These gardens had
many levels.
4. The plants were watered by an ______________system.
5. A major trade route went through Babylon. As a result, many ________________ passed through
the city. A caravan is a group of traveling ____________. The merchants brought goods to Babylon
including ___________, ____________, and ________________.
6. Babylon grew_______ from this trade.
F. Babylonian Scientific Advances
1. Chaldean astronomers studied the stars, planets, and the moon and made the first
_________________ to measure time.
2. They also were the first to use a seven-day __________________.