Empires
The 1st Empire to rule the Middle East after Sumer.
What is Babylon?
He wrote the world's first written code of law.
Who was Hammurabi?
The Hittites were the 1st people to use this metal exclusively.
What is iron?
This empire was located in present day Iraq.
What is Babylon?
The name of Babylon's chief god.
What is Marduk?
This empire ruled the Middle East after old Babylon fell.
Who were the Hittites?
He was the 1st King of Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
Ashurbanipal established this great advancement in Nineveh.
What is the world's first great library?
This empire was located in modern day Turkey.
Who are the Hittites?
Before the 20th century the only information about the Hittites could be found in this book.
What is the Bible?
This was the last great empire to rule the ancient Middle East.
What is the Persian Empire?
This Persian ruler allowed Jews to return home.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
This principle, created by the Babylonians, assigned a value to numbers according to their position in a series.
What is 'place-value notation'?
This empire bordered the Persian gulf in present day Iran.
What is Persia?
The number of Jews that returned to Jerusalem .
What is 42,360?
Two Kings from this empire were responsible for the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 712 B.C.
What is the Assyrian Empire
This New Babylonian ruler destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This empire established government & law.
What is the Old Babylonian Empire.
This empire is located in present day Northern Iraq and Southern Turkey.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
This was Xerxes' biblical name
What is Ahasuerus?
Under Darius I and this ruler, the Persian Empire reached it's greatest extent
Who is Xerxes I?
This King established the world's first postal service.
Who is Darius?