Match the following.
1. an empire lasting from 900 B.C. to A.D. 600 that was located in present-day Ethiopia along the Red Sea
empire
2. an empire lasting from 1100 to 600 B.C. and stretched from Egypt to Mesopotamia
Iron Age
3. an empire lasting from 1900 to 1100 B.C. and 600 to 539 B.C. that stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
codified laws
4. a self-governing city and the surrounding land
Babylonian Empire
5. laws that are written down
Aksumite Empire
6. a political unit made up of a vast expanse of territory that is under the direction of a single ruler
Assyrian Empire
7. the period when iron was first used to make tools and weapons
city-state