Ch.3 Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
Babylon
A
a city-state in Masopotamia
2
Q
Babylonia s
A
an empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-state
3
Q
Assyria
A
a region at the foot of the Zagros Mountain in the upper Tigra River
4
Q
Nineveh
A
the capitaol if the assyyrian empire and the site of a great liybray
5
Q
Hammurabi
A
king of babylon who came to rule all of Mesospotamia and established a written code of laws known as the Code of Hammurabi
6
Q
Ashurbanipal
A
king of asyiria when it was at it’s largest and most powerful
7
Q
Nebuchadnezzar ll
A
Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of the former Assyrian Empire and ordered massive building prodjects
8
Q
conquest
A
the defeat of another group
9
Q
code of Hammurabi
A
a set of laws established by Hammurabi
