Quiz 1-3 New Empires

What metal-working technique did the Assyrians learn from the Hittites?

• Ironworking (or iron smelting)

• Bronze casting

• Gold leafing

• Silver filigree

One of the world's first libraries was in ________.

• Nineveh

• Babylon

• Athens

• Alexandria

The ________ and the ________ worked together to defeat the Assyrians.

• Chaldeans, Medes

• Babylonians, Egyptians

• Hittites, Phoenicians

• Persians, Greeks

Babylon was located on the major trade route between which two large bodies of water?

• The Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea

• The Red Sea and the Black Sea

• The Caspian Sea and the Arabian Sea

• The Dead Sea and the Adriatic Sea

The Chaldeans contributed the ________ to our modern calendar.

• seven-day week

• leap year

• Gregorian months

• solar eclipse

What is the name of a group of traveling merchants ?

• Province

• Caravan

• Artisan

• Assyria

The country that took over Mesopotamia from the Babylonians

• Persia

• Asia

• Egypt

• Assyria

The name of a political district

• Province

• City

• Astronomer

• Grouping