city-states
Assyria
Persia
Miscellaneous
Phoenicia
100
King Nebuchadnezzar's hanging gardens were found in this city:

Babylon

100

The Assyrians divided conquered regions into territories known as: 

provinces

100

This leader established the Persian empire, abolished slavery, ended exile, and allowed all conquered people to keep practicing their own religious customs:

Cyrus the Great

100

The largest empire in the Fertile Crescent region between 934 BCE and 300 BCE:

The Persian Empire

100
This word means "purple" and refers to a people who manufactured a rare purple dye from sea snails:

What is "Phoenicia"?

200

The capital of the Persian empire:

Persepolis

200

Define infrastructure:

A network of roads and communications built up by the Assyrians to control their empire.

200

This ruler of Persia was most famous for his reforms, which included a single gold currency, fairer system of tribute, and the building of a network of roads in Persia:

Darius I

200

This civilization practiced human or child sacrifice:

What is Phoenicia?

200

The Phoenicians formed colonies for farmland and other resources, but also for this reason:

What is safety from outside invaders?

300

The capital of the Assyrian empire and location of the world's first library:

Nineveh

300

List three military innovations of the Assyrians

The standing army, the cavalry, three-horse chariots, archers (bows/arrows), siege towers, battering rams are all possibilities. 

300

An example of infrastructure in Persia:

The Great Royal Road

300

This king was the first to conquer and destroy Jerusalem:

King Nebuchadnezzar

300

These two types of boats were invented by Phoenicians for trade by the sea:

What are biremes and triremes?
400

This colony of Phoenicia was established to escape Persian invaders:

Carthage

400
The most famous king of the Assyrians:

Ashurbanipal

400

This religion of the Persions involved belief in one good god in an eternal struggle with a lesser evil god.

What is Zorastrianism?

400

Who believed in human or child sacrifice?


the Phoenicians

400
The Phoenician coastland is in these three modern day countries. 

Israel, Syria, and Lebanon

500

Give the three main city states of Phoenicia:

Tyre, Beirut, and Sidon

500

The Assyrians believed that their empire was the emobidiment of which god?

Ashur

500

The name of the gold coin used by Darius to establish a single currency in the Persian empire:

The Daric

500

This was the Israelite prophet who explained the "writing" on the wall to King Belshazaar of the Babylonians.

Who is Daniel?

500
"Aleph" an example of this important achievement of the Phoenicians.

What is the Phoenician Alphabet? (Aleph is the first letter.)

M
e
n
u