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___________________ created a huge library with over 30,000 tablets from around the fertile crescent.
a) Rick
b) Nebuchadnezzar
c) Sargon
d) Ashurbanipal

The most famous leader of the New Babylonians was named ________________.
a) Sargon
b) Hammurabi
c) Nebuchadnezzar
d) Rick

The New Babylonians named _______________ as their capital city.
a) Babylon
b) Akkad
c) Ninevah
d) Ashur

The Medes and Chaldeans defeated the Assyrians and named their Empire the ____________________.
a) Chalmedes
b) Medeans
c) Akkadians
d) New Babylonians

Assyrians demanded that conquered people pay ________________, for protection from their army.
a) taxes
b) hush money
c) tribute
d) fines

To get around an enemy's defenses, the Assyrians ________________.
a) broke down walls
b) sent arrows over the walls
c) dug tunnels and used protected ladders
d) waited outside

One of the military inventions that the Assyrians used to fight was _________________.
a) chariots
b) swords
c) missiles
d) all of the above

The Assyrians were _________________ by others.
a) feared
b) loved
c) admired
d) misunderstood

The Assyrian Empire came to power using ___________.
a) clever political moves
b) a fierce military
c) sheer luck
d) none of the above

The type of justice in Hammurabi's code is referred to as _____________________.
a) morbid
b) super extra
c) eye for an eye
d) cruel and harsh

The goal of Hammurabi's code was ______________.
a) justice
b) revenge
c) fame and fortune
d) all of the above

Hammurabi's Code was a __________________.
a) angry letter to a newspaper
b) code of laws
c) fictional story
d) computer program

_________________ was the king of the Babylonian Empire.
a) Sargon
b) Darius
c) Cuneiform
d) Hammurabi

The Akkadian empire was best known for creating _____________ .
a) a code of laws
b) a writing system
c) hot air balloons
d) fertile farmland

This is a curved region of land that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
a) Fertile Crescent
b) Persia
c) Hindu Kush
d) Egypt

A( n) ______________ brings together many different peoples and lands under the control of one ruler.
a) emperor
b) code
c) empire
d) justice

A powerful leader named ____________ , leader of the Akkadians, started the first empire in world history.
a) Hammurabi
b) Darius
c) Sargon
d) Xerxes

Nebuchadnezzar created the ________________ to please his wife.
a) Ishtar gates
b) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
c) Temple of Judah
d) Temple of Doom

The Persian Empire was cut off from the fertile crescent by __________________.
a) Mountain ranges
b) dense forests
c) deserts
d) glaciers

____________ was the first ruler of the Persian Empire.
a) Darius
b) Cyrus
c) Xerxes
d) Rick

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