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Ch. 4, Lesson 2 EXAM
Ch. 4, Lesson 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Province? | A political district |
| Astronomer? | A person who studies stars and planets |
| Nineveh? | The Assyrian empire's capital city |
| Nebuchadnezzar? | Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon |
| Caravan? | A group of traveling merchants |
| Hanging Gardens of Babylon? | One of the seven wonders of the ancient world |
| Who did the Chaldean's defeat in 612 B.C.? | The Assyrians |
| The Persians? | The mountain of people that captured Babylon in 539 B.C. |
| Around 2340 B.C., ______ created the world's first empire? | Sargon |
| Hammurabi's law code influenced later law codes, including those of Greece and Rome? | True |
| Assyrian kings divided their empire into political districts called ______? | Provinces |
| One of the key factors in the success of the Assyrian army was their use of ______ weapons? | Iron |
| strongly influenced the Assyrians? | The Babylonians |
| A group called the Amorites conquered the Assyrians? | False |
| What was the capital of the Assyrian Empire? | Nineveh |
| Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? | Nebuchadnezzar |
| What is something true? | Babylonian artisans sold goods to passing caravans. |
| In 539 B.C., the Egyptians conquered Babylon. | False |
| The Fertile Crescent includes parts of the modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Isreal and Jordan? | True |
| Sumerian city-states went to war with one another to increase trade | False |
| Many Sumerians were skilled metalworkers because of their abundance of metal in Sumer? | False |
| Sargon conquered all of the peoples of Mesopotamia, creating the world's first empire that lasted more than 200 years? | True |
| The Assyrian army numbered around 50,000 soldiers, including infantry, cavalry, and charioteers? | True |
| Which group rebelled against the Assyrians? | Chaldeans |
| The first Sumerian kings were probably | War heroes |
| Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life? Hammurabi | 282 laws "an eye of an eye" |
| Who made up the Sumerian middle class? | Artisans, merchants, farmers and fishers |
| During the summer in Mesopotamia | Water was SCARCE |
| Scribe? | A person who writes/keeps written records in Mesopotamia (cuneiform) |
| Assyrians? | First large army to use iron weapons |
| Nineveh? | Site of one of the world's first libraries |
| Gilgamesh? | Hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds |
| Ziggurat? | A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top |
| Astronomers? | People who study heavenly bodies |
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