Ch. 1 Sec. 3 The First Empires

Why were the Assyrians so powerful?

• They had a strong king

• They had a strong army

• They followed the laws of Hammurabi

• Drew Brees was their leader

The Assyrians forced new settlers to ...

• Create Assyrian statues

• Dig irrigation ditches

• Learn their language

• Pay heavy taxes

The ___ taught the Assyrians how to make iron stronger.

• Sumerians

• Hittites

• Scribes

• Persians

The Assyrians had a writing system similar to the ___.

• Babylonians

• Cuneiform

• Artisans

• Chaldeans

The Assyrians did NOT believe in the same gods as the Babylonians.

• French Fry

• False

• Taco

• True

The Assyrians laws were

• Brutal

• Fair

• Unkind

• Jusstified

Which biblical person was sold into slavery by his brothers to a passing caravan?

• Jacob

• Joseph

• John

• Joshua

in 650 BC, the Assyrian empire stretched form the ____ to the Nile River

• Indian Ocean

• Persian Gulf

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

The Assyrians terrible treatment of people led the successful rebellion of the __.

• Babylonians

• Persians

• Sumerians

• Chaldeans

The capital city of Assyria was __.

• Nineveh

• Babylon

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Mesopotamia