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 in the Upper Tigris 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

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 at 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 the former Assyria Empire and ordered massive building projects.

Answer 7

Nebuchadnezzar ll

Question 8

the defeat of another group.

Answer 8

Conquest

Question 9

a set of laws established by Hammurabi.

Answer 9

Code of Hammurabi