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The central city-state of Ancient Sumer
What is Ur?
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This term refers to executing a person for their crimes
What is Capital Punishment?
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Stories from Ancient Assyria have been recorded in this form
What are wall carvings/relief carvings?
100
The most prominent King from Chaldea
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
100
Literal meaning of Mesopotamia
What is "between rivers"?
200
The Sumerians developed this type of writing
What is Cuneiform?
200
This engraved stone featuring 282 laws can be found in the Louvre museum in this European city
What is Paris?
200
Assyrians gained military advantage by using this material in making weapons
What is Iron?
200
This city state regained prominence as the "showcase of the east" under the Chaldeans
What is Babylon?
200
The two majors rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
He was a British archaeologist that made many significant discoveries from Sumerian civilization
Who is Sir Leonard Woolley?
300
The most prominent king from Babylonia
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The Assyrians were among the first to organize their military this way
What is into specialized units?
300
This wonder of the ancient world was constructed for the King's homesick wife
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
300
These were massive temples built by the ancient Mesopotamians
What are Ziggarauts?
400
The world's oldest known work of literature
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
400
The most significant legal/governmental contribution from Babylonian society
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
While brutal and ruthless in war, King Ashurbanipal also invested heavily in these disciplines
What are Science and Mathematics?
400
The Chaldeans captured this city near the Mediterranean and took hundreds of Jewish prisoners back to Babylon as slaves
What is Jerusalem?
400
This river in Egypt was of great importance to the developing civilizations there
What is the Nile?
500
This artefact from ancient Sumeria depicted life in times of war and peace
What is the Standard of Ur?
500
The Babylonia's introduced these 3 forms of currency
What are the Shekel, Mina & Talent?
500
The was the biggest and most prominent city in Assyria
What is Nineveh?
500
The Chaldeans eventually fell to invaders from this neighbouring empire
What is Persia?
500
This term refers to belief in multiple gods
What is polytheism?