2.3 Babylonia and Assyria

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 foot of the Zagros Mountains and in the Upper Trigris River Valley

Answer 3

Assyria

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Nineveh

Question 5

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

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

Answer 6

Ashurbanipal

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 8

to defeat another group

Answer 8

conquest

Question 9

a set of laws established by Hammurabi

Answer 9

Code of Hammurabi