Akkad
Sargon
Miscellaneous
Hammurabi
Assyria
100
The world's first empire
What is Akkadia (Akkad)?
100
Sargon became ruler in this year.
What is 2334 BCE?
100
An important part of Sargon's campaigns
What are chariots?
100
During what years did Hammurabi reign?
What is 1792-1750 BCE?
100
The capital of Assyria
What is Ninevah?
200
A Semitic people who lived in the southern region of Mesopotamia
Who were the Akkadians?
200
Sargon used ideas from these to begin a new government
What are city-states?
200
Sargon put Mesopotamia under what type of government?
What is a single government?
200
Hammurabi based his empire in this area.
What is Babylon?
200
The most impressive part of Babylonian restoration
What is The Hanging Gardens?
300
Sargon's empire marked the beginning of a new form of this.
What is government?
300
Made from strips of wood and horn and was capable of firing arrows further and faster than conventional wooden bows
What is the composite bow?
300
The official language of Mesopotamia
What is Akkadian?
300
A group of many different lands under one ruler
What is an empire?
300
Nineveh held one of the ancient world's largest of these, which contained over 20,000 collections of clay tablets.
What is a library?
400
Before Sargon's reign, Mesopotamia was controlled locally by
What is kings and royal families
400
This was made by arranging soldiers into equally spaced rows of men with overlapping shields and leveled spears.
What is the phalanx?
400
Babylonian math was based on what number?
What is 60?
400
Hammurabi is best known for writing what?
What is The Hammurabi Code?
400
The year that a combined army of Medes, Chaldeans, and others burned and leveled Nineveh
What is 612 BC?
500
Another name for the Fertile Crescent
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Chaldean king responsible for restoring Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
500
How many hours were in a Babylonian day?
What is 24?
500
Hammurabi's code protected who?
Who is the consumer?
500
Soldiers who dug tunnels to sap or undermine the foundation of the enemy's walls so they would fall
What are sappers?
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