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Worksheet time: 9mins
The Assyrians were located in...
Southern Mesopotamia
Northern Mesopotamia
Eastern Mesopotamia
Western Mesopotamia
There are three main historical periods for the Assyrian Empire, but the most important is
Early Assyrian Empire
Middle Assyrian Empire
Neo Assyrian Empire
Late Assyrian Empire
Why was siege warfare important?
Because, it allowed warriors to get out their aggression, so they wouldn't be violent at home.
Because, if a military didn't enter the walled cities of the ancient world, there was no way to capture slaves and loot the city for valuables.
Because ancient cities often had valuables hidden inside the walls.
Because, if a military knocked down the city, they could marry the women and capture slaves.
Most of the information that we know about the Assyrians comes from bas reliefs and cuneiform inscriptions.
True
False
Who was the patron deity (god) of the Assyrians, and why was this god important?
Shamash, because he was the deity that gave the Assyrians the divine law and helped the Assyrians become a powerful empire.
Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, because she knows how to multitask, and she was the most powerful goddess in the entire Near East.
Gibil, the "governor of the gods," because he judged both the gods and humans, and without law and order, there is chaos.
Ashur, the supreme god of the sky and war, because he was the one who called the kings to wage war on his behalf to punish evil doers.
The Assyrians were highly skilled in this type of warfare...
Land
Siege
Desert
Mountain
Siege warfare is when army soldiers camp outside a city and repeatedly attack it until the city falls.
True
False
After conquering an area it was not uncommon for the Assyrians to...
Force the entire population to move to a completely new place
Make the entire population slaves
Kill the entire population
Cut off everyone's feet.
People feared the Assyrians because...
They had a cavalry.
They had strong iron weapons.
They had archers.
They had horse driven chariots.
All of the above
Some people paid ___________ so they didn't have to fight the Assyrians.
tribute
sacrifices
How important was the sling as a weapon?
The sling was mostly used to distract archers within the walled cities during a siege, so it helped the infantry approach the enemy walls.
The sling was primarily used by ancient shepherds who used it to protect flocks of goats and sheep from wild predators. It wasn't really taken seriously as a military weapon
According to some estimates, the ancient sling was as powerful as some modern handguns, and a skilled slinger could hit targets farther than a football field away.
Slingers were considered the most important weapon in most ancient militaries, because it was deadly accurate and instilled fear in the hearts of the enemy.
The first professional military in the ancient world belonged to the...
Romans
Hittites
Babylonians
Assyrians
Egyptians
Which army made use of the chariot in battles?
Mesopotamians
Hittites
Egyptians
Assyrians
All of the above
The imperial period in Assyrian history was from 900 to 600 BC, and was characterized by.
It was a time when the Assyrian empire lost control of the Assyrian heartland.
It took place before the Late Bronze Age Collapse
It was a period of vast military expansion, that reclaimed for Assyrian lands previous lost to competing states.
During this period, Babylon and Ur were the largest city-states in the Middle East.
This was the original capital of Assyria, and was most likely named for the Assyrian god of war.
Ashur
Nineveh
Nimrud
Kalhu
Official letters in ancient Assyria were written in what script (not a language)?
Assyrian
Babylonian
Hieroglyphs
Phoenician
Cuneiform
This Assyrian king established the first professional standing army in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and what is probably the first professional military in history.
Ashurbanipal
Tiglath Pileser III
Sennacharib
Sargon II
By the 7th century BCE, Assyria was the largest empire ever seen, and became a model for future empires like the Persians, Greeks and Romans.
True
False
This Assyrian king laid siege to Lachish, in northern Israel, and threatened Jerusalem until Israel's King Hezekiah paid tribute to him. His military campaign is preserved on a cuneiform inscribed prism.
Ashur
Sargon
Ashurbanipal
Sennacharib
While the Assyrian Empire came to an end after Nineveh was destroyed in 612 by an alliance of Medes and Babylonians, many descendants of the ancient Assyrians live in Iraq to this day.
True
False
