2.3 Babylonia and Assyria Flashcards

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a city-state in Mesopotamia.

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Babylon

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an empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-states.

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Babylonia

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region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Upper Tigris River Valley.

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Assyria

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the capital of the Assyrian Empire and the site of a great library under King Ashurbanipal.

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Nineveh

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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.

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Hammurabi

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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.

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Ashurbanipal

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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.

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Nebuchadnezzar ll

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the defeat of another group.

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Conquest

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a set of laws established by Hammurabi.

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Code of Hammurabi

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