Assyrians Flashcards
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What was the Hanging Garden of Babylon?
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It was built by Kin Nebuchadnezzar for his homesick wife. This was a massive project,considered one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world
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Why did the Assyrian Empire fall in 612 BCE?
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The Medes and Chaldeans targeted a common enemy the Assyrians. Nineveh burnt down and the fire glazed all the tablets hardening them and preserving them for archaeologists to study.
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What are natural barriers?
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Things such as mountains or rivers.
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List the Assyrian tactics they used in war to take a city- state
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Soldiers were covered in stiff leather They used Advanced planning And used technical skills And siege warfare And battering rams And dug tunnels and archers and Physiological warfare
