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Which City-State?
Sumer
Akkad
Babylon
Assyria
100
The people of this city-state invented writing
What is Sumer
100
Sumer was located in the _________ region of Mesopotamia
What is south
100
this means defeated
What is conquered?
100
Babylon was located between these to rivers
What are Tirgris and Euphrates ?
100
the capital of Assyria
What is Nineveh?
200
People from this city-state placed great emphasis on war & conquests.
What is Assyria?
200
this was a large Sumerian city-state, surrounded by mudbrick walls
What is Uruk
200
this is a large territory consisting of many different places
What is an empire ?
200
Set of laws established to govern the people of Babylonia
What is the Code of Hammurabi ?
200
Assyria was the largest and most powerful under this King
Who is Ashurbanipal?
300
Under Sargon, a great ruler of this city-state, the world's first empire was created
What is Akkad?
300
consisted of a series of stacked rectangular platform that created a huge pyramid-shaped structure
What is a ziggurat?
300
a ruling family
What is a dynasty ?
300
This phrase is often used to describe Hammurabi's punishments
What is "an eye for an eye"
300
Assyrians were known for their great and sometimes merciless ____________
What are warriors?
400
This city-state was home to Hammurabi
What is Babylon?
400
a professional writer
What is a scribe?
400
Sargon gave his daughter the title of ...
What is high priestess
400
Babylonians had a strict ___________
What is class system?
400
Ashurbanipal built a great one of these in the capital city
What is library?
500
Nebuchadnezzar II was crowned King of this city-state
What is Babylon
500
the belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
500
"His kingdom stretched from ____________to __________" meaning Sargon ruled the entire world.
What is sunrise to sunset?
500
Babylon became the center of ________________
What is culture and learning?
500
A statue of this was found from Ashurbanipal's palace
What is a winged lion?