Who were the Assyrians?
Major Accomplishments
Military and Government
Time Period and Location
Art, Cuneiform, and Steles
100
The Assyrians were in power from _________ _________.
What is from about 900-612 B.C.E.?
100
After being attacked many times the Assyrians developed a ____________ _____________.
What is a strong army?
100
Most of Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Egypt.
What are places that the Assyrians conquered?
100
Where the Assyrians lived.
Where is Mesopotamia?
100
The clay tablets the Assyrians wrote on.
What are steles?
200
The Assyrians were well known for ____,____,____.
What is they are well known for their weapons, war strategies, and major inventions that we still use today.
200
What is one accomplishment of the Assyrians that makes transportation easier today?
What are paved roads?
200
a military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender
What is siege.
200
The Assyrian Empire spanned this far.
What is it stretched from Egypt to the entire northern half of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent?
200
The name for the Assyrians writing.
What is cuneiform?
300
The word Assyria is derived from mât Aššur which means ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
What is “the country of the god Aššur.”
300
The Assyrians invented this, we use them in our houses and in cars.
What are keys and locks?
300
The king of the Assyrian Empire.
Who is Tiglath-Pileser III?
300
The Assyrian Empires greatest rise.
What is their greatest rise in power was 900 B.C.E.?
300
The Assyrians carved art with this type of tool.
What are iron and copper tools?
400
The Assyrians were previously ruled by ______.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
The Assyrians invented this, it enables fast communication.
What is a postal service?
400
The Assyrians did this after conquering an empire.
What is torturing and beating the population before vanquishing them from their home?
400
They came after the Assyrians.
Who are the Neo-Babylonians?
400
Another name for the Assyrian language.
What is Neo-Aramaic?
500
The Assyrian king lived here.
What is the city of Nineveh?
500
The Assyrians invented this item that is found in bathrooms.
What are flush toilets?
500
King Tiglath-Pileser lll established the most expensive _____ in Mesopotamia. It was located in the city of ______.
What is library and Nineveh?
500
They came before the Assyrians.
Who are the Babylonians?
500
This statue was depicted infront of most important buildings in Assyria. This statue was of _______.
What is a bull or lion with wings and a man's face?
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