The Assyrians used this type of warfare, which is when an army camps outside a city and attacks it over and over until the city falls.
What is seige warfare?
100
This was the king of the Neo-Babylonia Empire.
Who is Nebuchadrezzar?
100
The people of this empire made advances that led to the 60-minute hour and the 7 day week.
Who are the Neo-Babylonians?
200
The Akkadians' greates achievement was the creation of this.
What is the world's first empire?
200
The city of Babylon served this purpose, in addition to being Mesopotamia's capital city.
What is a trading center?
200
These were the systems of pipes and channels that brought water from distant places, within the Assyrian Empire.
What are aqueducts?
200
The Neo-Babylonians conquered these two groups to control Mesopotamia.
Who were the Egyptians and the Babylonians?
200
This is the name of the work of art that shows Sargon's grandson, King Naram-Sin, leading his victorious army up the slopes of a mountian while crushing enemies underfoot.
What is the "Victory Stele"?
300
This capital city of Akkadia was built with tributes collected from conquered people.
What is Agade?
300
Hammurabi's code of laws served these two purposes.
What is 1) to unify Hammurabi's empire, and 2) to preserve order.
300
These realistic, two-dimensional sculptures were first created by the Assyrians.
What are bas-reliefs?
300
What type of building was the "House of the Platform Between Heaven and Earth", which was reconstructed by the Neo-Babylonians?
What is a ziggurat?
300
Babylonian writers wrote these, many of which survive to this day.
What are historical poems?
400
These three-dimensional sculptures were first created by the Akkadians.
What are steles?
400
These people had rights under Hammurabi's Code of Laws.
Who is everyone, including slaves?
400
The Assyrians first used these, which were long poles on wheels used for punching holes through walls.
What are battering rams?
400
The Hanging Gardens were located here.
What is Nebuchadrezzar's palace in Babylon?
400
Most of the famous bas-relief sculptures of the Assyrians were found here.
What are the palace walls?
500
The Akkadians used this written language.
What is cuneiform?
500
List three (3) items traded in Babylon.
What is grain, woven cloth, precious gems, wood, gold, silver, and livestock?
500
This was the capital city of the Assyrian Empire, which had magnificent palaces to honor their kings.
What is Nineveh?
500
This invention by the Neo-Babylonians proves their advances in astronomy.
What is the sun dial?
500
To keep his Neo-Babylonian Empire safe, Nubuchadnezzar surrounded his city with protective structures. Identify two (2) of these structures.
What are: inner walls, outer walls, towers and moats.