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100
This wild beast man was Gilgamesh's best friend.
Who is Enkidu?
100
This is when Gilgamesh may have ruled.
What is 2750 BC?
100
This city was renamed Babylon.
What is Akkad?
100
These wedges shapes were often carved into clay.
What is cuneiform?
100
Zoroastrianism was developed during this empire.
What is Babylon?
200
This Assyrian ruler unsuccessfully besieged Jerusalem.
Who is Sennacherib?
200
The Persian Wars were fought at this time.
What is 490 BC?
200
These two rivers were for the basis for the region of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
This is the Latin term for law characterized by "eye for an eye."
What is Lex Talionis?
200
Ashurbanipal was a ruler of this empire.
What is Assyria?
300
He was the chief Babylonian god.
Who is Marduk?
300
This is what happened in 1728 BC.
What is Hammurabi's code being written?
300
This was the capital of Assyria.
What is Nineveh?
300
This was the newest and best technology during the Assyrian Empire.
What is iron/the iron age?
300
This empire unsuccessfully attached Greece.
What is Persia?
400
This Babylonian ruleris credited with the Hanging Gardens.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
400
These are teh two empires that came before Persia.
What are Babylon and Assyria?
400
This body of water was east of Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
This tall and jagged edifice was an important place of worship for the Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
400
This civilization is known for its hunting reliefs.
What is Assyrian?
500
This ruler was the first to establish the Persian Empire.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
500
A major horticultral event took place in this year.
What is 605 BC?
500
This city was a Persian capital.
What is Susa?
500
This civilization was one of the first to introduce the idea of city-states.
What is Sumer?
500
Satrapies were an invention of this empire.
What is Persia?
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