2.3 Babylonia and Assyria Flashcards
a city-state in Mesopotamia
Babylon
an empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-states
Babylonia
region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains and in the Upper Trigris River Valley
Assyria
the capital of the Assyrian Empire and the site of a great library under King Ashurbanipal
Nineveh
King of Babylon who came to rule all of Mesopotamia and established a written code of laws known as the code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi
King of Assyria from 668 B.C. to 627 B.C. when it was the largest and most powerful
Ashurbanipal
Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of the former Assyrian Empire and ordered massive building projects
Nebuchadnezzar II
to defeat another group
conquest
a set of laws established by Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi