General Questions
Worshipping many gods and goddesses
Polytheism
The epic of this ruler is one of the oldest surviving works of literature
Gilgamesh
Government systems of the Akkadians
City-States
Babylonian King who wrote his own code of laws
Hammurabi
Ashurbanipal was the Assyrian King who built what?
Ninevah's Great Library
Mesopotamia lies between these 2 rivers
Tigris and Euphrates
Thought to be the largest city in ancient Sumer
Ur
King who established the Akkadian Empire
Nebuchadnezzar II supposedly built this ancient wonder of the world
Gardens
The Assyrians lived in this part of Mesopotamia
Northern
Much of Ancient Mesopotamia was in this current day country
Iraq
The Sumerians created a number system based on this number
60
Which idea did Sargon the Great bring to the Akkadian Empire?
Sons should follow their follows as rulers
This empire conquered the Babylonian Empire
Persian Empire
Assyrians were experts in this kind of warfare
Siege
Mesopotamia means this in Greek
The Sumerians created this form of writing
Cuneiform
T or F: The Akkadian Empire was the first empire to rule all of Mesopotamia
True
How many times did the Babylonians rise to power?
2
Who defeated the Assyrians twice?
Babylonians
Temples dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a city
Ziggurats
The Sumerians used this to bring water from the river to their crops
Irrigation
T or F: Sargon the Great's father was also king
False
How many rules were in Hammurabi's Code?
282
The Assyrians reached their peak under this king
Tiglath-Pileser I