The Mesopotamian Empires

A group of traveling merchants

• astronomer

• caravan

• ziggurat

• province

the Assyrian Empire's capital city

• Babylon

• Nineveh

• providence

• Nebuchadnezzar

a political district

• city-state

• province

• Ninevah

• Nebuchadnezzar

Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

• Hammurabi

• Nineveh

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Sargon

one who studies the stars and planets

• province

• astronomer

• caravan

• Nebuchadnezzar

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

• how to use more advanced weapons such as catapults and battering rams.

• how to fight while riding horses.

• how to use stronger metals such as iron for weaponry.

• 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

• Ziggurat

• wall around the city

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

• Red Sea

• Euphrates River

• Tigris River

• Persian Gulf

In 612 B.C.E. the Chaldeans defeated whom?

• Akkad

• Assyria

• Hammurabi

• Nebuchadnezzar

Hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds is

• scribe

• priest

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi