Vocabulary
The Assyrians
Army, Government and Life in Assyria
The Chaldeans
The City of Babylon and the Fall of the Empire
100
A political district in Assyria was called a _____________.
What is province.
100
About 1,000 years after Hammurabi, a new empire arose in this fertile crescent.
What is Mesopotamia.
100
The Assyrian army was ____________ ____________ because they had soldiers who were well trained fight with their weapons.
What is well organized.
100
The Chaldeans controlled all of Mesopotamia from _______B.C to _________B.C.
What is 605 B.C. to 562 B.C.
100
Babylon was surrounded by a ____________ ____________.
What is brick wall.
200
The king of the Chaldeans.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar
200
These people lived North of the Tigris River and they founded a new empire in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Assyrians.
200
The army was the first large army to use _________ ____________. The skill to make these was learned by the Hittites.
What is iron weapons.
200
Most of the Chaldeans were descendants of these people who made up Hammurabi's empire about 1,200 years earlier.
Who are the Babylonian people.
200
This 100 yard (91.4 m) wall was built so soldiers could.
What is keep watch, or protect the city.
300
This garden in Babylon, built by the king for his homesick wife, was an immense staircase of greenery with large trees, masses of flowering vines and other beautiful plants.
What is Hanging gardens.
300
The reason why outside invaders were attracted to Assyria was because of its ________________.
What is fertile valleys.
300
At the core of the army were groups of foot soldiers armed with these two types of sharp weapons.
What is spears and daggers.
300
The Chaldeans rebuilt the city of Babylon as the _____________of their empire.
What is center.
300
The Chaldeans built these three structures in the city of Babylon.
What are palaces, temples (or Ziggurats) and the Hanging Gardens
400
These groups of travelling merchants, which artisans sold their wares to were called______________.
What is caravans.
400
To defend their land the Assyrians build a large __________.
What is army
400
Other soldiers were experts at using _____________ and ___________which were used to shoot over walls.
What is bows and arrows.
400
Most of the Chaldeans were descendants of these people.
Who are the Babylonian people.
400
Outside the center of Babylon stood ___________and _____________.
What are houses and marketplaces.
500
These people who studied the heavenly bodies, mapped the stars, the planets , and phases of the moon were called.
What is astronomers.
500
Around ___________B.C. the Assyrians began taking over the rest of Mesopotamia.
What is 900 B.C.
500
Other soldiers used these two ancient methods of transportation in order to fight.
What are chariots and horses.
500
Babylon quickly became the world's ___________and _____________city because of __________.
What is largest and richest because of trade.
500
As time passed the Chaldeans began to loose their power because they found it hard to ______________ . So in 539 B.C. the ______________ captured Babylon. Their new empire was called ______________.
What is control their people, Persians, Persian Empire.
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