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- ability to move quickly around a battlefield and fire arrows at enemies
- importance of chariots
- Babylonian Empire
- Hammurabi's empire that included Mesopotamia named after his capital
- monarch
- a ruler of a kingdom or empire
- Kassites
- Who captured Babylon after the Hittites and ruled for 400 years?
- importance of Hammurabi's Code
- how thorough it was and it was written down for all to see
- first people to master ironworking and usage of chariots
- advantages of the Hittites over their rivals
- Nebuchadnezzar
- famous Chaldean king that rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city
- Phoenicia
- wealthy trading society at the western end of the Fertile Crescent that is today Lebanon
- Hammurabi's Code
- a set of 282 laws that dealt with civil and criminal laws in almost every part of daily life
- alphabet
- set of letters that can be combined to form words
- created a calendar, solved complex problems of geometry and Babylon became a center for astronomy
- Chaldean aceivements
- Hammurabi
- Babylon's greatest monarch that took power in 1792 BC
- Nebuchadnezzar's palace
- featured the Hanging Gardens where trees and flowers grew on its roof
- social class
- What did matter in the Hammurabi's Code that resulting in different penalties
- Chaldeans
- group from the Syrian Desert that destroyed Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire
- strong army using iron weapons and chariots
- key to the Assyrians'battle success
- cedar trees
- valuable trade item in Phoenicia
- make the strongest weapons
- importance of mastering ironworking
- Nineveh
- place from where the Assyrians ruled after conquering the Fertile Crescent
- glass blowing
- the art of heating and shaping glass
- Babylon
- once a Sumerian city located on the Euphates River near what is today Baghdad, Iraq
- local leaders
- Assyriann kings ruled through their large empire through ???.
- chariot
- a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
- Assyrians
- Who ruled briefly and 300 years later began to conquer all of the Fertiile Crescent and cam efrom northern Mesopotamia?
- Carthage
- famous colony along the Phoenician trade route on the northern coast of Africa that became one of the most powerful cities on the Mediterranean
- Hammurabi's accomplishments
- brilliant war leader, oversaw building and irrigation projects, improved tax collection system and code of law