DMS World History Mesopotamia Empires Review

A group of lands under a common ruler is

• An Empire

• a country

• a state

• a carnival

Payment made to a foreign ruler as a sign of surrender is called

• zakkat

• tithe

• tribute

• fees

The Babylonian King who wrote the first codified laws was

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Vladamir Putin

• Barney the Dinosaur

The army that conquered Mesopotamia using Iron weapons were

• Assyrians

• Akkadians

• Amorites

• Germans

Assyrians were skilled at

• being artists

• storing records

• ways of war

• all of these

Assyrians were eventually overthrown because

• they were brutal rulers

• they charged high tributes

• small groups united to fight them

• all of these

Nineveh was the site of the first

• skating rink

• library

• courts

• army barracks

The first conqueror of the Sumerian City States was named

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Count Chocula

If you resisted the Assyrian army, the likely punishment was

• village was robbed and burned

• they would make you stay in jail

• they beat you in the public square

• they gave you a time out

The famous king of the Chaldean Empire who built the hanging Gardens of Babylon was

• Hammurabi the law giver

• Sargon the great

• Olaf the Frozen

• Nebuchadnezzar the Great