Mesopotamia Part 2 and 3

Hammurabi was a __________________ king.

• Akkadian

• Babylonian

• Assyrian

• Neo-Babylonian

Hammurabi is best known for...

• his code of laws

• the empire he created with Babylon at its center

• creating the first empire in the world

• creating stele

The ____________ conquered the Babylonians around 1595 BC.

• Persians

• Assyrians

• HIttites

• Kassites

One of the greatest contributions of the Hittites was ________________.

• iron smelting

• the phalanx military formation

• horse drawn chariots

• bronze weapons and tools

A new dynasty began in 722 B.C. when _____________ seized power.​ Modeling himself on Sargon the Great, he divided the empire into provinces and kept the peace.

• Sargon II

• Ashurbanipal

• Esarhaddon

• Ashurnasirpal II

The Hittites freely shared their advanced technology with their neighboring cultures.

• True

• False

Shalmaneser conquered ____________.

• Israel

• Egypt

• Judah

• Samaria

The _____________ were from the mountains east of Mesopotamia. During their rule of Babylon immigrants from Europe and India arrived in Mesopotamia.

• Persians

• Hittites

• Kassites

• Assyrians

Ashurnasirpal II was hated because of his brutality. His son Shalmaneser spent the majority of his reign fighting off an alliance between ________________.

• Judah, Samaria, and Israel

• Persia, Syria and Egypt

• Israel, Judah, and Egypt

• Syria, Babylon and Egypt

The Kassites abandoned their own culture after a couple of generations of dominance, allowing themselves to be absorbed into Babylonian civilization

• True

• False