4-2 Mesopotamian Empires

What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger?

• how to use bows and arrows and other more advanced weapons such as catapults and battering rams

• how to fight while riding horses

• how to make use stronger metals for weaponry, such as iron

• how to make chariots

Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

• Hanging Gardens

• King's Palace

• Mesopotamian Wall

• Irrigation System

Babylon became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and the

• Red Sea

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• Persian Gulf

In 612 B.C. the Chaldeans defeated whom?

• Akkdians

• Asyrians

• Hammurabi

• Nebuchadnezzar

Which mountain people captured Babylon in 539 B.C.?

• Hittites

• Persians

• Assyrians

• Chaldeans

a group of traveling merchants

• caravan

• astronomer

• province

• scribe

the Assyrian Empire’s capital city

• Ninevah

• astronomer

• province

• Nebuchadnezzar

a political district

• Ninevah

• astronomer

• province

• Nebuchadnezzar

Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

• Ninevah

• astronomer

• province

• Nebuchadnezzar

one who studies the stars and planets

• Ninevah

• astronomer

• province

• Nebuchadnezzar