Grade 6, Class SS Chapter 1.3 (Assyrians & Chaldeans)

Question 1

One 1,000 years after Hammurabi, a group of people from northern Mesopotamia called the _____ began taking over Mesopotamia

Answer 1

Assyrians

Question 2

One of the reasons why the Assyrians were very strong is because they had very organized _____.

Answer 2

Militaries

Question 3

At the core of the army were a group of ____ soilders armed with spears and daggers

Answer 3

foot soilders

Question 4

Other soilders were experts at bows and ____

Answer 4

arrows

Question 5

They also used chariot riders and soldiers who fought on _____ (we call these military units “calvary”)

Answer 5

horseback

Question 6

The Assyrians were also the first large army to use ____weapons, which were stronger than the bronze weapons used by the rest of Mesopotamia.

Answer 6

Iron

Question 7

What were some methods the Assyrian s used to capture cities?

Answer 7

1. Tunneled under walls

2. Climbed with ladders

Question 8

What are two methods the Assyrians used to maintain power over the people they conquered?

Answer 8

1. Made them pay high (heavy) taxes

2. Moved people from other places to their territory

Question 9

By 650 B.C, the Assyrian Empire stretched from the 1.____ Gulf in the east all the way into Egypt’s 2.____ River in the west. The capital was at 3._____

Answer 9

1. Persian Gulf
2. Nile River
3. Nineveh

Question 10

Assyrian kings divided the empire into 1._____ or political districts. They also chose 2.____ to govern the districts. Their jobs included collecting taxes and enforceing the kings laws

Answer 10

1. Province

2. Officals

Question 11

Assyrians also created one of the worlds first ____ in Nineveh, which had more than 25,000 tablets of stories and songs

Answer 11

library

Question 12

In 627 B.C., the Chaldeans, led by 1.____ rebelled against the Assyrians with the help of another qroup of people under Assyrian rule, the 2.___

Answer 12

1. Nabopolasser

2. Medes

Question 13

By 612 B.C., Nabolassar and his son, ________ ____=-conquered all of Mesopotamia

Answer 13

, Nebucha Dnezzar

Question 14

The Chaldeans made their capital city at 1._____. That is why the Chaldean Empire is sometimes called the New 2._________ __________

Answer 14

1. Babylon

2. New Babylilon Empire

Question 15

The Chaldean eventully fell to the ______ in 539BC bc of weak rulers

Answer 15

persians

Question 16

How is iron made and who taught the Assyrian to make iron weapons?

Answer 16

The Hitties showed them to make iron weapons by heating iron ore, hammered it, then rapidly cooled it

Question 17

What caused the downfall of the Assyrian empire that eventully led to their defeat at the hands of the Chaldeans?

Answer 17

1. weak leaders
2. poor harvest
3. ppl werent untited

Question 18

Describe the city of Babylon under Chaldean rule. What made it such a “magnificent” sight?

Answer 18

The city of Babylon under chaldean rule was built as a glorious center of their empire. The city became the worlds largest and richest city.
~high walls
~ziggurat