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SS Ch 1, Sec 3 (6th)
The First Empires
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the 1st empire of Mesopotamia? | The Babylonian Empire |
| What was the capital city of the Babylonian Empire? | Babylon |
| Who was the leader of the Babylonian Empire? | Hammurabi |
| Why did the Babylonian Empire fall? | The Babylonians were conquered by the Assyrians because Assyria had a large, well organized army. |
| What was the 2nd empire of Mesopotamia? | The Assyrian Empire |
| What was the capital city of the Assyrian Empire? | Ninevah, which was located on the Tigris River |
| Who was the leader of the Assyrian Empire? | ? |
| Why did the Assyrian Empire fall? | Assyria's cruel treatment of people led to many rebellions. About 650 BC the Assyrians began fighting over who would be their next king. At this time a group of people called the Chaldeans rebelled. They captured Nineveh in 612 BC and the empire crumbled. |
| What was the 3rd empire of Mesopotamia? | The Chaldeans |
| What was the capital city of the Chaldean Empire? | Babylon, because many of the Chaldeans were decendents of the Babylonian people who made up Hammurabi's empire 1,200 years earlier. |
| Who was the leader of the Chaldean Empire? | Nebuchadnezzar |
| Why did the Chaldean Empire fall? | Over time, the Chaldeans began to lose their power because they found it hard to control the peoples they had conquered. Then the Persians captured Babylon and Mesopotamia became part of the new Persian Empire. |
| What did the Hittittes teach the Assyrians that helped make its army strong? | How to make iron stronger |
| What is located in Babyon and known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? | The Hanging Gardens |
| Babylon became rich from trade because it was located between which 2 bodies of water? | The Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf |
| The Chaldeans contributed the ______ to our modern-day calendar. | the seven-day week |
| Which mountain people captured Babylon in 539 BC? | The Persians |
| Where did the Assyrian people live? | In the north of Mesopotamia near the Euphrates River. |
| After the Assyrians captured a city, what did they do? | They set fire to its buildings and carried away its people and goods. |
| What was Babylon know throughout the world for? | It was the world's largest and richest city. |
| How was Assyria governed? | The empire was divided into provinces that chose their own officials to govern. |
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