Chapter 41: The Dark Age of Mesopotamia

Question 1

Erra

Answer 1

It is another god that is causing horrendousness because of his nature can’t resist afflicting the city.

Question 2

Mushki

Answer 2

This is the name of the twenty thousand Phrygians Tiglath-Pileser defeated in the valley of the northern Tigris.

Question 3

Nebuchadnezzar

Answer 3

He is from the undistinguished line of the Second Dynasty of Isin. He got the statue of Marduk back and brought it back to Babylon.

Question 4

Phrygians

Answer 4

They are from the northern Greek peninsula called Thrace, they burned Hattusas to the ground.

Question 5

Suppiluliuma II

Answer 5

He is the younger son of Tudhaliya IV. He took the crown from his older brother, and called himself Suppiluliuma II, in an effort to evoke the great Hittite empire-builder of a century and a half earlier.

Question 6

Tiglath-Pileser

Answer 6

He is the king of Assyria, he was crowned not long after the burn of Hattusas. His family ruled the Assyrian heartland.