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The Geographic/political unit of organization in Sumer is was the city-state. A city-state is a self-governing city that allows governs nearby villages. The king was the ruler of Sumer’s government. The kind ruled the city-state from his kingdom, he operated the army and courts, and he planned cannels and other projects.
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Sargon a king of a city state called Kish created the first empire in history in 2300 B.C. An empire is a group of lands and people ruled by one government. This empire was over 900 miles long and about the same distance from Los Angeles, California to Portland, Oregon. The name of the powerful king was Hammurabi. Hammurabi gained control of Mesopotamia by 1750 B.C. Five city-states under Babylonia control are Nineveh, Nimrud, Ur, Asher, and Babylon. Four of the jobs of Hammurabi are that he acted as a Judge by using traditional Sumerian laws to make his legal decisions. He ruled Babylon. He ordered repair of canals. The Hammurabi’s Code (of laws) was carved in cuneiform. A code of law is a written collection of the laws that apply to the people ruled by one government. The relationship between a crime and a punishment is like a cause/ effect. When you do something you’re not supposed to, a crime, you will get a punishment for your actions. The Assyrian Empire conquered the Babylonians, and by 600 B.C. the Assyrian empire stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf and North into the area that is modern Turkey. Two warfare inventions of the Assyrians are battering rams and towers on wheels to destroy the walls of enemy cities. They also invented horses- drawn chariots for war.
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