2-3 Babylon and Assyria Flashcards
1
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A city-state in Mesopotamia
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Babylon
2
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An empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-states
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Babylonia
3
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Region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Upper Tigris River Valley
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Assyria
4
Q
The capital of the Assyrian Empire and the cite of a great library
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Nineveh
5
Q
King of Babylon who came to rule all of Mesopotamia and established a written code of laws known as the Code of Hammurabi
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Hammurabi
6
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King of Assyria from 668 B.C. to 627 B.C. when it was it was at its largest and most powerful time
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Ashurbanipal
7
Q
Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of the former Assyrian Empire and ordered massive building projects
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Nebuchadnezzar ll
8
Q
The defeat of another group
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conquest
9
Q
A set of laws established by Hammurabi
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Code of Hammurabi
