Emperors
Capital Cities
Law and Order
Wars
Mystery category
100
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by __________
Nebuchadnezzar
100
Capital city of the Akkadian Empire?
Akkad
100
For slapping your parents, the punishment given in Hammurabi's Code was _______.
Hands cut off.
100
What was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Nineveh.
100
Why were iron weapons used by the Assyrians better than bronze or stone weapons used by their enemies?
They were stronger.
200
Hammurabi was the first to _____ his law code.
Write down.
200
Capital city of the Assyrian Empire?
Nineveh
200
Which emperor wanted law and order throughout Babylon, resulting in the first written law code ?
Hammurabi
200
The people of the city of _____________ were Assyrians.
Nineveh
200
Mesopotamia means the "Land Between _________."
The Rivers.
300
What did Nebuchadnezzar do to make his wife happy?
He built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
300
Capital city of the Babylonian Empire?
Babylon
300
Hammurabi wrote down his _____________.
Law Code.
300
Sargon built his empire by capturing the city-states of _______.
Mesopotamia.
300
Assyria, Babylon, and Akkad were empires that were built in ___________.
Mesopotamia.
400
Nebuchadnezzar's wife was originally from ______.
Persia.
400
Why didn't Nebuchadnezzar's wife like Babylon?
It was hot, flat, and dry, but her homeland was hilly, green, and beautiful.
400
What was unique about Hammurabi's Code?
It was the first Law Code to be written down.
400
The most ferocious of the ancient people used Iron weapons. They were from Assyria. They had their capital city at ___________.
Nineveh.
400
The Assyrians were known for maiming and torturing who?
The prisoners they captured in war.
500
The first emperor in history was _____.
Sargon
500
The capital of Sargon's Empire was what city?
Akkad
500
In Hammurabi's Code, the law of "Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth" meant that punishment was based on _______.
The damage that had been done.
500
Assyrians were the first to use weapons made of _________.
Iron.
500
The law "Eye for Eye, and Tooth for Tooth," comes from which law code?
Hammurabi's Code.
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