Babylonia and Assyria (lesson 3) Flashcards
1
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Babylon
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a city-state in Mesopotamia
2
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Babylonia
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an empire that included all of the city-states of Mesopotamia
3
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Assyria
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a region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains
4
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Nineveh
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the capital of the Assyrian Empire
5
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Hammurabi
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king of Babylon who became to rule all of Mesopotamia and made Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
6
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Ashurbanipal
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king of Assyria when it was at its largest and pwoerful
7
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Nebuchadnezzar II
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Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of the former Assyrian Empire
8
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conqest
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the defeat of another group
9
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Code of Hammurabi
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a set of laws established by Hammurabi
