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Fertile Crescent: Chapter 2-2
The Fertile Crescent
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History
6th Grade
09/20/2008

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Define:  conquer
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to take over
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Define:  empire
Definition
a conquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler
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Define:  emperor
Definition
ruler of an empire
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Define: taxation
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a system to support the government by paying with crops, money,

or other goods

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Define:  Code of Hammurabi
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282 laws that dealt with

almost every part of life

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Define:  equal justice
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fair treatment under the law
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Who was the Babylonian ruler who started a tax system to support the government?
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Hammurabi
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Who was the Babylonian ruler who wrote the first collection of laws?
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Hammurabi
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Who was the first person to rule an empire in Mesopotamia?
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Sargon
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