Military
Language
Skills/Development/Architecture
Geography
Miscellaneous
100
A city-state the Assyrians conquered and later destroyed.
What is Babylon?
100
The language Assyrians spoke.
What is the Akkadian/Aramaic language?
100
Assyrians built these large temples made of several terraces.
What is a ziggurat?
100
Nineveh was near there.
What is the Tigris River?
100
After Assyrian forces destroyed Babylon, he rebuilt it.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
200
An ancient war invention of the Assyrians that is still used today.
What is the battering ram?
200
A form of picture writing that made up several Mesopotamian written languages.
What is cuneiform?
200
A society that grows food. Assyrians had this advancement.
What is an agricultural society?
200
Assyria's great library was here.
What is Nineveh?
200
Archaeologists learned about Mesopotamia through it.
What is the library of Nineveh?
300
They supposedly were the most feared faction of Assyrian military.
What are charioteers?
300
WRITTEN JEOPARDY!!!!!! Write "God or Heaven" in Assyrian cuneiform!
I shall check your answer against the SS textbook!
300
Assyrians often used this art form to depict war and, to a lesser extent, everyday life.
What is a stone carving?
300
Assyria was here, and you now call it Iraq.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Assyrians kept these.
What are slaves?
400
They were strips of flexible material designed to fling rocks at fatality-causing speeds.
What are slings?
400
The Phoenicians invented the alphabet because this was too hard to learn.
What is cuneiform?
400
An Assyrian tool of war, the Assyrian society had no trouble making this projectile weapon.
What is a bow and arrow?
400
It is a river directly across from the Tigris River.
What is the Euphrates River?
400
The Assyrian library was in this building..
What is Ashurbanipal's palace?
500
Until recently, Assyrians were thought to be about this and nothing else.
What is war?
500
Akkadian was very similar to this language.
What is Sumerian?
500
An Assyrian sport was killing these large members of the cat family.
What are lions?
500
The city-state Assyria was named for.
What is Assur?
500
In 650 B.C., Assyria controlled most of this country.
What is Egypt?