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Question 1: Nebuchadnezzar
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Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
Question 2: Nineveh
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the Assyrian Empire's capital city
Question 3: Chaldeans
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group who rebelled against the Assyrians
Question 4: cuneiform
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a form of writing developed by the people of Sumer
Question 5: Nineveh
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site of the world's first library
Question 6: Assyrians
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First large army to use iron weapons
Question 7: Sumerian middle class
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artisans, merchants, farmers, fishers
Question 8: city-state
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has its own government but is not part of any larger unit
Question 9: Sumerian city-states
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went to war with each other over resources and boundaries
Question 10: 50,000
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soldiers in the Assyrian army
Question 11: Gilgamesh
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hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds
Question 12: Mesopotamia
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Greek for "land between the rivers"
Question 13: Assyrian army's brutality
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robbed people, burned crops, destroyed towns and dams, forced payments
Question 14: Hammurabi
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wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life
Question 15: Sumerian inventions
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writing; wheel, sailboat, plow, geometry, division, multiplication, calendar, 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 360 degree circle, astronomy
Question 16: ziggurat
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a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
Question 17: irrigation
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a method that brings water to crops
Question 18: caravan
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a group of traveling merchants
Question 19: Sargon
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the first person to conquer all of Mesopotamia creating the first empire
Question 20: astronomers
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people who study the heavenly bodies
Question 21: Trade
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How Sumerians got the metal that they needed
Question 22: The first Sumerian kings were probably
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war heroes