Assyria
This was the capital city of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
This was the most powerful god in the Babylonian pantheon, associated with justice, healing, magic, and storms.
Who was Marduk?
This term describes a large, flat, elevated area of land.
What is a plateau?
This Persian ruler founded an empire that became one of the most powerful states in the ancient world.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
This kingdom in Anatolia became wealthy because of its location between the Greek world and the Near East.
What is Lydia?
This Assyrian king destroyed Susa and Thebes and built a massive library.
Who was Ashurbanipal?
This king was the most famous ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
This mountain range stretches toward the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
This was the mother of Cyrus the Great.
Who was Mandane?
This was the last king of Lydia before Cyrus the Great conquered the kingdom.
Who was Croesus?
This library at Nineveh preserved more than 30,000 cuneiform texts.
What was the Library of Ashurbanipal?
This Babylonian king joined the Medes to defeat Assyria.
Who was Nabopolassar?
This vast elevated region stretches from the Hindu Kush Mountains toward the Armenian Highlands.
What is the Iranian Plateau?
This Median king was Cyrus's grandfather and the last king of the Medes.
Who was Astyages?
This alloy of gold and silver was used to make some of the world's earliest coins.
What is electrum?
These two groups joined forces to defeat the Assyrian Empire.
Who were the Babylonians and the Medes?
This term describes the period when Jewish people were held captive in Babylon, beginning in 605 BC.
What was the Babylonian Captivity?
This city was the capital of the Medes in their traditional homeland.
What is Ecbatana?
This Median general helped overthrow Astyages.
Who was Harpagos?
This system uses standardized metal coins as a medium of exchange instead of bartering.
What is coinage?
This city was destroyed in 612 BC by the Babylonians and Medes, marking a major turning point in the fall of Assyria.
What is Nineveh?
This was the last king of Babylon before the Persian conquest in 539 BC.
Who was Nabonidus?
This region was the ancestral home of the Persians.
What is Anshan?
According to Greek sources, this queen defeated Cyrus the Great in battle after he fought her people.
Who was Tomyris?
This philosopher, sometimes called the first scientist, helped Croesus by diverting a river.
Who was Thales of Miletus?