The Fertile Crescent includes parts of the modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.

• True

• False

Sargon conquered all of the peoples of Mesopotamia, creating the world’s first empire that lasted more than 200 years.

• True

• False

The Assyrian army numbered around 50,000 soldiers, including infantry, cavalry, and charioteers.

• True

• False

a hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds

• Assyrians

• Nineveh

• Gilgamesh

• scribe

site of one of the world’s first libraries

• Ziggurat

• Nineveh

• scribe

• Assyrians

first large army to use iron weapons

• Astronomers

• Ziggurat

• Nineveh

• Assyrians

a person who studies planets and stars

• Astronomers

• Scribe

• Ziggurat

• Gilgamesh

a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top

• Gilgamesh

• Ziggurat

• Nineveh

• silt

Which group rebelled against the Assyrians?

• Babylonians

• Sumerians

• Chaldeans

• Hittites

The first Sumerian kings were probably___________.

• artisans

• scribes

• farmers

• war heroes