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- 1. Multiple Choice
Over which of the following groups was Sargon the ruler?AkkadiansBabyloniansEgyptiansAssyrians - 2. Multiple ChoiceFor what achievement is Sargon best known?Building the Hanging Gardens for his wifeCreating the world's first empireInventing peanut butterCreating the first code of laws
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhere is the stone pillar with Hammurabi's Code on it today?IraqFranceFunkstownSpain
- 4. Multiple ChoiceAccording to Hammurabi, what would be the punishment for punching out a superior person's eye?deatha long prison terma severe beatingthe guilty person's eye would be knocked out
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhy did Nebuchadnezzar build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?He wanted to sell plants and flowersHe wanted to impress his guestsHe wanted to please his homesick wifeHe loved gardening
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following shows how warlike the Assyrians were?They invented the battering ram and used catapultsThey allowed women in their armyThey killed everyone in the cities they attackedThey killed the horses of their enemies
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the name of the oldest epic story ever written?Little Red Riding HoodWar and PeaceGilgameshGone With the Wind
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhere were Hammurabi's laws written?On clay tabletsOn a stone pillarIn a big bookOn a temple wall
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar are called the Neo-Babylonians because the king did what?made laws just like Hammurabihad such respect for the Babyloniansrebuilt Babylon after the Assyrians burned it downbuilt the largest ziggurat in Mesopotamia there
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe Assyrians may have burned Babylon, but what did they build?a librarya ziggurata huge walla palace for the king
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich Mesopotamian Empire was defeated by the Persians under Cyrus, the Great?SumeriansBabyloniansAkkadiansNeo-Babylonians
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat is an empire?a group of states, nations, or people under a single authoritya group with same laws, religion and languagea group with a single rulera group that shares the same culture or way of life
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