Lesson 2.3

Question 1

a city-state in Mesopotamia

Answer 1

babylon

Question 2

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

Answer 2

babylonia

Question 3

region at the food of the Zagros Mountains in the Upper Tigris Valley

Answer 3

Assyria

Question 4

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

Answer 4

ninevah

Question 5

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

Answer 5

hammurabi

Question 6

reign 668 B.C.-627 B.C. King of Assyria from 668 B.C. to 627 B.C. when it was its largest and most powerful

Answer 6

ashurbanipal

Question 7

c. 630 B.C.-562 B.C. Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of former Assyrian Empire and ordered massive building projects

Answer 7

Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 8

the defeat of another group

Answer 8

conquest

Question 9

a set of laws established by Hammurabi

Answer 9

Code of Hammurabi