Mesopotamia Lesson 3 Babylonia and Assyria

the capital of Babylonia; a city of great wealth and luxury

• Babylonia

• Nineveh

• Babylon

• Assyria

A Babylonian king who designed a legal code in early Babylon that gave punishment based on crime and social status.

• Nebuchadnezzar II

• Nineveh

• Hammurabi

• Ashurbanipal

Sumerian-based civilization in Mesopotamia; developed

courts and an early codified rule of law - the Code of

Hammurabi - "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"

• Assyria

• Akkad

• Sumer

• Babylonia

A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first)

examples of written law in the ancient world.

• Code of Ethics

• Code of Hammurabi

• Code of War

• The DaVinci Code

A carved stone pole-like structure, usually set in the center of a

city-state, used to mark laws.

• Stele

• Graphite

• Gold

• Ziggurat

What was the purpose of Hammurabi's Code of Laws?

• to strengthen the upper class

• to preserve law and order

• to punish the weak

to set out to defeat another group

• mission impossible

• triumph

• ransack

• conquest

King of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library

at Nineveh (668-627 BC)

• Ashurbanipal

• Nebuchadnezzar II

• Hammurabi

• Skywalker

Assyrian capital city located on the Tigris River was ...

• Ashurbanipal

• Sumer

• Nineveh

• Babylon

King of Babylon who expanded the the Babylonian Empire into what was Assyria and ordered massive building projects to make Babylon glorious. He completed the great ziggurat of Ur.

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Gilgamesh

• Nebuchadnezzar II