WorksheetsEmpire Showdown
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which group created the first empire in Mesopotamia?
Who was the leader of the Akkadian Empire?
Why was Sargon an important leader?
Sargon founded one of the first empires in history.
Sargon was a philosopher in ancient Greece.
Hammurabi was the ruler of which empire?
Akkadian Empire
What was the main purpose of Hammurabi’s Code?
To tell stories about the gods
To train soldiers
To create laws for people to follow
To improve farming
Which empire was known for its strong army and iron weapons?
Who was the Assyrian king that built a large library in Nineveh?
Hammurabi
Sargon
What city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire and the location of its famous library?
Uruk
Akkad
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are most often linked to which ruler?
Which is true about the Chaldeans and Persians?
The Chaldeans built Nineveh; the Persians built the Hanging Gardens
The Chaldeans built iron weapons; the Persians wrote Hammurabi’s Code
The Chaldeans took over Babylon; the Persians later conquered the Chaldeans
Whose empire is pictured in the map?
Assyrian Empire
Persian Empire
Chaldean Empire
Roman Empire
Why were the Hanging Gardens most likely built?
Nebuchadnezzar wanted to please his homesick wife.
To let soldiers hide from enemies.
To act as a temple for worshiping Babylonian gods
To provide farmland for Babylonian farmers
What did Hittites make their weapons out of?
Silver
Iron
Bronze
Copper
The Hittite Empire was located in what is modern day _________________.
Greece
Syria
Turkey
Iraq
Who conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire and expanded his rule across much of the ancient world?
Cyrus the Great
Nebuchadnezzar II
Sargon of Akkad
Ashurbanipal
