Lesson 3 Babylonia and Assyria

Question 1

Babylon

Answer 1

A city-state in Mesopotamia.

Question 2

Babylonia

Answer 2

An empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-sates.

Question 3

Assyria

Answer 3

Region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Upper Tigris River Valley.

Question 4

Nineveh

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Hammurabi

Answer 5

King of Babylon who came to rule all of Mesopotamia and established a written code of laws known as the Code of Hammurabi.

Question 6

Ashurbanipal

Answer 6

King of Assyrian from 668 B.C-667 B.C when it was at its largest and most powerful.

Question 7

Nebuchadnezzar II

Answer 7

Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of the former Assyrian Empire and ordered massive building projects.

Question 8

conquest

Answer 8

The defeat of a another group. .

Question 9

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 9

A set of laws established by Hammurabi.