WorksheetsEmpires of Mesopotamia Review Game (Ch 4 Lesson 2)
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
The Assyrians acquired a new technology from the Hittites that helped them strengthen their army. What was it?
Chariots... which allowed them to travel faster.
Iron... which made the strongest weapons at the time.
Bronze... which made the strongest weapons at the time.
Gunpowder... which allowed them to make small explosives.
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon built this world wonder for his wife, who missed her home in the mountains... what was it?
The Taj Mahal
The Hanging Gardens
The Great Pyramid
The Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Why was Babylon's location between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf so important for its success?
It made it easy to defend from invaders.
It was actually a bad location, since few people ever went there.
Flooding from these seas created good farm land there.
This was a central location on trade routes, which brought many caravans and merchants to Babylon.
The Assyrians had conquered this people, and had ruled them for many years. Finally, around in 612 BC this people, led by their leader Nabopollassar defeated the Assyrans. What was the name of this people?
Chaldeans
Babylonians
Sumerians
Akkadians
Why were the Persians able to defeat the mighty nation of Babylon in 539 B.C.?
Sargon and the Akkadians had attacked them, which weakened them so the Persians could defeat them.
Babylon had become weak due to poor harvests and rulers after the death of the great king Nebuchadnezzar.
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers had flooded and destroyed most of Babylon, which left it vulnerable to attack.
King Hammurabi's Code was so harsh that too many people had been put to death, which made Babylon's army weak.
Groups of merchants that traveled together, with the idea that a larger group would be better able to defend against bandits and problems on the road.
guild
trade route
ziggurat
caravan
This was the capital city of the Assyrians. It would later fall when the Chaldeans defeated them.
Babylon
Nippur
Nineveh
Ur
When the empire became too big for one person to rule, emperors appointed leaders to represent them in smaller political districts. What were these called?
states
city-states
territories
provinces
This Chaldean king made Babylon into one of the greatest cities in the ancient world.
Nebuchadnezzar
Sargon
Nobopollassar
Hammurabi
People in ancient Mesopotamia made many discoveries that had to do with the movements of the sun, moon, and stars. What were these people called?
merchants
artisans
engineers
astronomers
This ruler was the first to unite the city-states of Mesopotamia into the first empire of the ancient world?
Hammurabi
Sargon
Gilgamesh
Nebuchadnezzar
What is the Babylonian King Hammurabi best remembered for?
The code of laws he created.
Inventing dams and levies to stop the great rivers from flooding.
Created the Hanging Gardens
Defeated the Assyrians.
Which of the following best describes the Assyrians?
Were mostly scholars... did not believe a strong army was necessary to build a strong civilization.
They rolled through the city-states of Sumer on their chariots to create the first empire.
Their army was made up of 50,000 highly trained and brutal soldiers that were armed with iron weapons.
They invented the Code of Hummurabi to rule their citizens fairly.
When people describe the "Code of Hammurabi" as being harsh and its punishments demand "an eye for an eye," what do they mean?
Punishments were often painful and equal to the crime.
It meant that the judge had to see the crime with their one eyes to find someone guilty.
No matter what the crime was, the guilty person would have an eye removed.
It meant that any guilty person could get out of a punishment as long as they made a deal with the victim.
