Modified - Mesopotamia Lesson 4-2 Quiz

a group of traveling merchants

• Nineveh

• caravan

the Assyrian Empire’s capital city

• astronomer

• Nineveh

a political district

• province

• astronomer

Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

• Nineveh

• Nebuchadnezzar

one who studies the stars and planets

• province

• . astronomer

What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger?

• how to use more advanced weapons such as catapults and battering rams

• how to use stronger metals such as iron for weaponry

Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

• Hanging Gardens

• wall around the city

Babylon became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and the

• Persian Gulf

• Tigris River

In 612 b.c. the Chaldeans defeated whom?

• . Assyria

• Akkad

Which mountain people captured Babylon in 539 b.c.?

• . the Assyrians

• the Persians