Assyrians and Persians

Assyria should conjure ideas and images of...

• brutal warriors in reliefs on the walls of Ninevah

• a peaceful group who lived in the middle of the Mediterranean

• sea-faring people

• people to the south of Egypt who were conquerors

Part of the Assyrian's tactics included:

• chemical weapons

• biological weapons

• spreading rumors of their terror before they conquered

• mostly naval attacks

Who was a famous Assyrian King?

• Sargon the Great

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Cyrus

• Sennacherib

A siege is

• a very heavy rain in the Indus valley

• an encampment around a city in which a systematic attack takes place

• a naval tactic in which the invaders hide their ships until the native ships attack

• stone weaponry converted to warfare by the Assyrians

Interestingly, Assyrians also:

• had a peace festival and invited their neighbors

• collected a library of the works of those conquered, particularly called Ashurbanipal's Library

• maintain a modern country and army that continues the empire

• were defeated by Babylon

Who successfully defeated the Assyrian Empire?

• Medes and Chaldeans

• Akkadians

• Sumerians

• The Kingdom of Israel

Babylon was revived under the rule of ____, often called the ____ Babylon.

• Medea, the Fifth

• Ashurbanipal, Medo-

• the Chaldeans, Neo-

• Crescent Empire, Next-

The difference between Persian Empire governance and other empires was:

• the complete elimination of the old culture

• the complete elimination of population

• the intensity of terror used in administration of conquered people as slaves

• the offer of tolerance and diplomacy with military presence to back it up

This is an artist's rendering of

• a fancy ziggurat

• the Palace of Sennacherib

• the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

• Babylonian Temple Motif

The Persian King who conquered territory making it an empire initially was:

• Xerxes

• Menes-Chaldo

• Cyrus

• Darius