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What were the Phoenicians experts at besides trading?
Sailing/sailors
What year did the Assyrians conquer the Babylon’?
1200 BC
What year did the Chaldean‘s conquer the Assyrian’s?
600 BC
Give an example of one of the punishments that was on Hammurabi‘s code.
If you break a persons bone yours shall be broken, if you pull out a persons eye yours shall be pulled out, etc.
What year did the Akkadian’s Empire become weak and the Babylon’s took control?
2000 BC.
Why did other people respect the Phoenician’s and not try to conquer them?
They were traders and had lots of valued items.
What city did the Assyrian’s rule out of?
Nineveh
Where were the Chaldean’s from before conquering the Assyrian’s?
Modern-day Syria
What was the code of Hammurabi’s put on?
Two stone tablets.
What group had the biggest empire at that point?
The Akkadian empire.
Where did the Phoenician’s live?
They lived in the western portions along the Mediterranean Sea.
What code did they continue to use?
Hammurabi’s code.
What king built a place adorned with several terrance gardens?
King Nebuchadnezzar
What was mostly on the code of Hammurabi?
Crimes and punishments.
Where did the Akkadian empire stretch from?
The Persian gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
What modern-day country did the Phoenicians center primary?
Modern-day Lebanon
What other place did the Assyrian empire include besides Mesopotamia?
The Fertile Cresent
What city did the Chaldean’s destroy?
The city Nineveh.
What was one thing that Hammurabi did beyond Mesopotamia?
He increased trading with neighboring civilizations.
What year did a person north of Sumer conquer the Sumerian city-states and took them under control?
2300 BC.
What else did the Phoenician’s do with their ships?
They were ship builders.
Besides a well-developed army, what else did the Assyrian’s have?
They had lotus of weapons for breaching walls
What city did the Chaldean‘s rebuild and rule out of?
The city of Babylon.
What year did Hammurabi become the king of Babylon?
In 1792 BC
By what year had the Sumerians develop an origination.
3,000 BC.