Four Empires of Mesopotamia

Over which of the following groups was Sargon the ruler?

• Akkadians
• Babylonians
• Egyptians
• Assyrians

For what achievement is Sargon best known? 

• Building the Hanging Gardens for his wife
• Creating the world's first empire
• Inventing peanut butter
• Creating the first code of laws

Where is the stone pillar with Hammurabi's Code on it today?

• Iraq
• France
• Funkstown
• Spain

According to Hammurabi, what would be the punishment for punching out a superior person's eye?

• death
• a long prison term
• a severe beating
• the guilty person's eye would be knocked out

Why did Nebuchadnezzar build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

• He wanted to sell plants and flowers
• He wanted to impress his guests
• He wanted to please his homesick wife
• He loved gardening

Which of the following shows how warlike the Assyrians were?

• They invented the battering ram and used catapults
• They allowed women in their army
• They killed everyone in the cities they attacked
• They killed the horses of their enemies

What was the name of the oldest epic story ever written?

• Little Red Riding Hood
• War and Peace
• Gilgamesh
• Gone With the Wind

Where were Hammurabi's laws written?

• On clay tablets
• On a stone pillar
• In a big book
• On a temple wall

The Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar are called the Neo-Babylonians because the king did what?

• made laws just like Hammurabi
• had such respect for the Babylonians
• rebuilt Babylon after the Assyrians burned it down
• built the largest ziggurat in Mesopotamia there

The Assyrians may have burned Babylon, but what did they build?

• a library
• a ziggurat
• a huge wall
• a palace for the king