Babylonia and Assyria Flashcards
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Babylon
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a city-state in Mesopotamia
2
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Babylonia
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an empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-states
3
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Assyria
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region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Upper Tigris river valley
4
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Nineveh
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the capital of the Assyrian Empire and site of the great library under King Ashurbanipal
5
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Hammurabi
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King of Babylon
6
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Ashurbanipal
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King of Assyria
7
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Nebuchadnezzar II
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Chaldean dynasty king of babylon who took overmuch of the former Assyrian Empire and ordered massive building projects
8
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conquest
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the defeat of another group
9
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Code of Hammurabi
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a set of laws established by Hammurabi
