Babylonia and Assyria Flashcards
a city -state in Mesopotamia.
Babylon
an empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-state
Babylonia
region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Upper Tigris River Rally.
Assyria
the capital of the Assyrian Empire and the site of a great library under King Ashurbanipal.
Niveveh
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 Assyrian from 668 b.c. to 627 b.c. when it was at its largest and most powerful.
Ashurbanipal
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