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WorksheetsMesopotamian Empires
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 16mins
Who was the first King of the Akkadian Empire?
(a)
What happened after the Akkadian Empire fell?
Babylon immediately took over.
Assyria immediately took over.
The region returned to city-states
The region returned to hunting and gathering.
What does "Babylon" mean?
Gate of the Gods
Baby Lion
King Bylon's City
Northern Capital
What language did the Babylonians speak?
Babylonian
Sumerian
Akkadian
English
Mesopotamian
Hammurabi, King of the Babylonians, is famous for creating a list of...
Groceries
Laws
Gods
Animals
Recipies
According to Babylonian Law, which of the following crimes is not punished by death?
Breaking into someones house and stealing.
Accusing someone of a Capital Crime, but not proving it.
Going to a bar (if you are a female Priest)
Killing a slave by accident
Building a bad house that collapses
Write your own Babylonian-Style law.
This represents the Sun God of the Assyrians, who shared his name with their capital city. What was his name?
Ra
Ashur
Sunny G
Assyrion
Ahura Mazda
The Assyrians had two Empires: Old and New. Why did the Old Assyrian Empire fall?
The Late Bronze Age Collapse
The Fall of the House of Ashur
The Babylonian Insurgency
The Market Crash of 1929 BCE
Hammurabi's Revenge
Which of the following maps shows the New Assyrian Empire?
Which of the following is not a member of the Semitic Language Family?
Akkadian
Sumerian
Chaldean
Arabic
Which King came first?
Nebuchadnessar
Lugalzagesi
Hammurabi
Ashurbanipal
King William the Conqueror
Which non-Mesopotamian group did not attack a Mesopotamian Empire, leading to its eventual collapse?
The Persians
The Gutians
The Medes
The Hittites
The Israelites
What happened to the Library of Nineveh?
It was sold to the Turks by Ashurbanipal
It closed down after Hammurabi could not pay his late fees
It was destroyed by Nabupolassar when he burned the city down
Sargon made illegal copies of all the books, put them on the internet for free, and people stopped visiting
How many years were there between the fall of Akkadian Empire and the Rise of the (first) Babylonian Empire?
(Question courtesy of Amber)
13
156
666
10googol
Ishtar was the goddess of ____ ___ ___.
(Question courtesy of Sophie)
(a)
The saying "an eye for an eye" came from a law made by...
(Question courtesy of Zuyi)
Nebuchadnezzar
Kengir
Ashurbanipal
Hammurabi
Which group wrote texts that made the Neo-Babylonians look very bad?
(Question courtesy of Wendy)
The Israelites
The Elamites
No one. Everybody thought they were just super.
The Anakinites
Where was Babylon?
(Question courtesy of William)
By a river, just south of modern Baghdad
In the tundra, just east of modern Iqaluit
In the rainforest, just north of modern Brasilia
In the grasslands, just west of modern Hohhot
This is a Dragon. It represented...
(Question courtesy of Julie)
Adad, god of storms
Ishtar, god of love and war
Chernobog, god of darkness
Marduk, god of creation and water
Smaug, god of gold
If you had a time machine, where would you visit?
(No, you cant bring guns, so don't ask!)
Akkad during the time of Sargon
Babylon during the time of Hammurabi
Assyria during the time of Ashurbanipal
Babylon during the time of Nebuchadnezzar
