Mesopotamia

To support Babylon’s building projects and military, Nebuchadnezzar

• stole from neighboring city-states
• started wars through the region
• collected taxes & tributes from his people
• required traveling merchants to pay tribute to Babylon.

Which of the following were members of the upper class in Mesopotamia?

• merchants & traders
• scribes
• artisans
• kings & priests

Who was the king of the Akkadians who formed the first empire?

• Sargon
• Hammurabi
• Ashurbanipal
• Gilgamesh

These people built a great army to protect their lands from invasion. 

• Babylonians
• Assyrians
• Egyptians
• Chaldeans

Sumerian cities were cut off from each other because of

• the rivers
• mudflats & deserts
• the seas
• large forests

The rivers in Mesopotamia were the

• Tiber & Jordan
• Nile & Yellow
• Tigris & Euphrates
• Ganges & Indus

One factor that contributed to the success of the Assyrian army were its

• gold weapons
• steel weapons
• bronze weapons
• iron weapons

The Assyrian library at Nineveh held tablets of

• religion & laws
• stories & songs to the gods
• trading & government information
• laws & codes

Chaldean astronomers mapped 

• the distance between constellations.
• the locations of asteroids in the Milky Way.
• the path from Earth to Mars
• the stars, planets, & phases of the moon.

The Chaldeans of Babylon were the first people to 

• build a ziggurat in the town center.
• follow a seven-day week.
• use wheels for transportation.
• sell goods to traveling merchants.