Vocabulary
Bas-Reliefs
What is a type of two-dimensional sculpture?
After conquering the remainder of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi named this as his capital city.
What is Babylon?
This is the next great empire after the Babylonians.
What is the Assyrians?
One of the modern countries that covered ancient Assyria.
What is Iraq?
Siege
What is a long attack of a city that forces it to surrender?
This God was declared to be supreme over other gods by Hammurabi.
What is Marduk?
The Assyrians were known for this.
What is their military ability and cruelty?
Battering Rams
What are large wheeled beams used for breaking down walls?
These are types of things did Hammurabi's code cover
What is trade, marriage, divorce, and punishments....
Nineveh, the capital city of Assyria, was known for having this.
What are parks and gardens?
Aqueducts
What are pipes used to carry water?
These 2 groups of peoples had better rights under the time of Hammurabi.
Who are women and slaves?
This person was the only woman known to rule Assyria.
Who is Sammuramat?
Economy
What is the way a region uses resources to sell and trade goods.
These are 2 things that were developed under Hammurabi's time.
What are roads and a postal service?
This was probably the main weakness of Assyria, and the reason this great empire fell.
What is having too vast an empire that was stretched too thin?