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30 Cards in this Set
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What time was the power of Sumer started to fade?
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Around the time of 2400 B.C.
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Who was a ruler from an area in northern Mesopotamain know as Akkad?
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Sargon I
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When did they make the first empire?
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2300 B.C.
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What was the first lanuage the people used?
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Akkadian
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When did the new group of Amorites enter the Tigris-Euphrates.
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1800 B.C.
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How long did Sargon I rule?
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50 year ( Shortly after his death the empire fell.)
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Who was a great conqueror.
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Hammurabi.
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They were the new rules of the new empire.
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Sumer and Akkad
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Who extened their land when ruler.
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Hammurabi ( Extened to Mediterranean Sea.)
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What is the land in betweeen the Tigris River and the Euphrates.
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Mesopotamia
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Who gets puished when they are not honest?
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Juges and Witnesses.
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(Finish this sentence.)
Punishments ranged from.. |
..Fines to Death.
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People were believed to be innnocent..
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..Unit proven guilty.
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How many uears did Hammurabi ruled?
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Over 40 years.
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Which citie was mst important and why?
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Babylonian and for trading.
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What did the babyilonianest pay to get the goods?
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Gold and Silver.
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What does reign mean?
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Period of power.
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What does empire mean?
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Group of states under one ruler.
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What does culture mean?
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The way of life.
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What does reform mean?
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Improvment.
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Who wanted to make sure the code was fair.
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Hammurabi.
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What is known as the Golden Age?
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Reign
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When Hammurabi died what happen to Babylon?
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They divied into small-cities.
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They invented clothes and costomes.
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Sumer.
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They made the law.
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Sumerians.
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Sumerians invented the..
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..Wheel.
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Sumerians also invented the...
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..Plow and the Sailboat.
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They deveolped the...
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..Calender.
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They learned how to..
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..Use numbers.
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Sumerians made a clock by using..
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..Drops of water.
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