Here's the empires or kingdoms that will be on the quiz

Akkadian empire ● First notable leader was Sargon of Akkad ● He first gained power by defeating the last king of Sumeria Lugal­Zage­Si at the battle of Uruk ● Sargon was claimed to be the son of La'ibum or Itti­Bel, ● He was abandoned in a basket on a river just like Moses was ● Ur­Zababa of the dynasty of kish appointed him cupbearer ● he fought the Hattian king Nurdaggal of Burushanda ● This man was succeeded by Rimush and Manishtushu who are his sons ● This man was married to Tashultum ● He ruled from 2334­2279 BC ● This man supported a revolt that occured inSubartu ● This man defeated four great Elamite generals ● He rose to power by defeating the "King of the Countries," paving the way for his grandson to become "King of the Four Quarters." ● He led the conquest of Ur,Uruk, and Lagash ● One opponent of this man was Kashtubila king of Kazalla ● he would make his daughter Enheduanna priestess of the moon­god Nanna ● Naram Sin of Akkad ● Is the third successor of Sargon of Akkad ● Under him the Akkadian empire reached its zenith ● He was the first Mesopotamian king known to have claimed divinity For himself ● Was the son of Manishtushu ● He expanded his empire by defeating the King of Magan at the southern end of the Persian Gulf ● One Mesopotamian myth has it that the goddess Inanna abandoned the former capital of Akkad following Naram­Sin's plunder of the Ekur ● The guitan raids started during his reign which later on would lead to then collapse of this empire ● He has a very cool looking victory stele that has him as a god king climbing above everyone and he is climbing the defeated army of the lullubi it was found in Susa Sumerian civilization ● These people called themselves the black headed people ● Lugal­Zage­Si was their last king ● is credited with the invention of the wheel, ● Created cuneiform the first writing system ● It experienced the Jemdet Nasr period ● It's town of Uruk featured the white temple ● It began at the settlement of Eridu ● Kings of it were called Lugals ● This civilization was the first to farm year­round by employing irrigation canals, ● Some of its urban centers include Ur and Akkad ● Wrote on clay tablets ● Gilgamesh was a mythical ruler of it Hittites ● destroyed Yamkhad Kingdom in the sack of Aleppo ● first king was Labarna I ○ Tawananna was wife ● Edict of Telpinus is about their early history ● Traditional enemies: ○ Azzi ○ Hayasa ○ Assuwa League ● stole the statue of Marduk after sacking Babylon in the 16th century BC ○ after this, the reign of the Kassites in Babylon would take form ● Hurrians influenced their culture ● fought Ramses II and the Egyptians at the Battle of Kadesh ○ Muwatalli II was their king and leader at the battle ○ signed one of the first known peace treaties after ● Hattusa was their capital ● early Anatolian Kingdom ● one leader was afflicted by a namesake “aphasia” and wrote a prayer to stop a plague ● Ten Year Annals written by one ruler ● book about one king’s “Manly deeds” ● letters to Ay ● Dakhamunzu ● Anitta of Kussara sacked this civilization’s capital ● King Tushratta ● “stone house” ● Edict of Telipinu ○ governed succession ● Other famous kings: ○ Hattusili I ■ descendants ruled it ○ Mursili II ○ Suppiluliuma I ● ancient empire of ironworkers in modern day Turkey known also for chariots Assyrian ● once controlled by the Mitanni ○ defeated Tushratta to free itself ● Semiramis was a semi historical queen of this empire according to Greek legend ● Tiglathpileser I ○ conquered area bordering the Mediterranean Sea ● led by a king who Byron claimed “came down like a wolf on the fold” ● massive library in capital called Nineveh by Ashurbanipal ○ massive collection of cuneiform tablets ● led by Sennacherib ● Ashurbanipal was another famous ruler of it ● Shalmaneser III ○ built a Great Ziggurat in this empire ■ destroyed after it was sacked by the Chaldeans ● based around the city of Ashur, from which it takes its name ● Amarna Letters ○ about a marriage of one of its leader’s daughters to a king of Babylon ● Middle Period corresponds with Egypt’s Akhenaten ● Ashur­Uballit ● “Pul” was the name of one of its rulers in the Old Testament ○ seizure of Damascus in the Book of Kings ● Tiglathpileser III ○ succeeded by Sargon II ● Ancient Near East and Mesopotamia descendant of the Akkadian Empire ● decapitated the “braggart” Teumann, king of Elam ● razed Hamanu ● Gyges of Lydia rebelled ● Tukulti­Ninurta ● “plotted evil” ● King Hezekiah ● Medes also destroyed it ○ Cyaxares ● Iamassu is winged bull protector deity and is sculpted as a relief on buildings ● Nabopolassar led the Neo Babylonians that destroyed it ● Shamshi­Adad ● Austen Henry Layard excavated its capital ● violent expansionism and massive deportation of the Jews ○ never took Jerusalem though ● North of Babylon ● Kultepe ● Karum Kanesh was a colony of it ● Khorsabad ● Dur­Sharrukin ● library was one of Seven Ancient wonders ● The Taylor Prism describes a ruler of it ● “bird in a cage” ● Epic of Gilgamesh found in its famous library ● Pharaoh Necho fought Judah with it at the Battle of Megiddo ● fought between Israel and other peoples at Battle of Qarqar ● one ruler blinded 14400 men in one eye ● Subartu was a derogatory name for it ● cult of Ninurta ● Black Obelisk ● divided the circle into 360 degrees ● Kalakh was one of its capitals ● Adad­Nirari I Neo­Assyrian ● Psamtik ○ puppet ruler installed by Egypt over it ○ put down revolts of Ethiopian kings: ■ Taharqa ■ Tanutamon ● Zakutu installed the frequent ailing Esarhaddon on its throne ● Finally defeated when Harran fell ○ during civil war between Ashur­etil­ilani and Sin­shar­ishkun ● defeated by the Neo Babylonian Empire ● Elamites ● descended from the empire of Ashurbanipal and Tiglathpileser I ● Shalmaneser III ○ Defeated Urartu ○ Defeated alliance of Aramean states led by Hadadezer of Damascus at the battle of Qarqar ● Decline ended with the ascension of Ad nirari II ○ Conquered the Aramean and Hurrian peoples Babylon ● Kassite and Amorite dynasties ruled here ○ Kassites ended by the Elamite ruler Shatruk Nahunte ● Fought battle of Qarqamesh ● Conquered by Tilgath Pileser ● Leveled by Sennacherib ● Main temple was Esagila ● Borsippa was near the capital ● chief god that they worshipped was Marduk ● Selucia Tigris was founded after its capital was abandoned ● Claimed to be the successor city to Eridu ● Nebachanazzer II was a great ruler of it ● Built the Hanging Gardens ● The Persians, under Cyus the Great conquered it