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 in the Upper Tigris River Valley.
Assyria
the capital of the Assyrian Empire and the site of a great library under King Ashurbanipal.
Nineveh
c. 1810 b.c.-1750 b.c. King of Babylon who came to rule all of Mesopotamia and established a written code of laws known as the Code of Hammurabi.
Hammurabi
reign 668 b.c.-627 b.c. King of Assyria from 668 b.c. to 627 b.c. when it was at its largest and most powerful.
Ashurbanipal
c. 630 b.c.-562 b.c. Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of the former Assyria Empire and ordered massive building projects.
Nebuchadnezzar ll
the defeat of another group.
Conquest
a set of laws established by Hammurabi.
Code of Hammurabi