Government
The head of Babylonian government would be called?
What is a king?
Became the largest empire in existence after overthrowing the NEO-Babylonian Empire.
The Persian Empire?
The religious term meaning 'belief in multiple gods'.
What is polytheism?
Word meaning 'land between 2 rivers'.
What is Mesopotamia?
The first written language known to man.
What is cuneiform?
The first widespread law code ever recorded.
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
The Holy City besieged twice by King Nebuchadnezzar.
What is Jerusalem?
The patron god of the city of Babylon.
What is Marduk?
Name of the river the city of Babylon was located.
What is the Euphrates river?
The group of people that invaded Sumer, leading to its collapse.
What are the Elamites?
Name of the first King of the OLD Babylonian Empire?
Who is Hammurabi?
The empire that overthrew the OLD babylonian Empire.
The temple where religious rites took place, such as sacrifice.
What is a ziggurat?
The desert located between Egypt and Babylon, in modern-day Saudi Arabia.
What is the Arabian Desert?
The race King Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II were a part of.
What are the Chaldeans?
The longest reigning and most successful king of NEO-Babylonian Empire.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
The king of this group of people raided all of Mesopotamia, taking thousands of people as slaves.
What are the Hittites?
The race/ religion associated with the term 'semetic'.
What is Jewish?
The name of the gulf located on the southern end of Mesopotamia?
What is the Persian Gulf?
The race that ruled over the Old-Babylonian Empire, including King Hammurabi.
What are the Amorites?
The Assyrian capital that was taken by King Nabopolassar and the Medes?
What is Nineveh?
Name of the king who overthrew the NEO-Babylonian Empire, helping create the largest empire in existence.
Cyrus the Great.
The temple referenced in the bible that Babylon likely got its name from.
The Tower of Babel.
The sea located West of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The construction project led by King Nebuchadnezzar to remind his wife of her homeland in the Zygros mountains?
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?