U1S3 Quiz Content


Item #1

• King Nebuchadnezzar

                Of Chaldeans

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Item #2

province

Political district

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Item #3

caravan

Groups of traveling merchants

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Item #4

astronomer

• People who study the heavenly bodies
• Mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon

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Item #5

The Assyrians

• Around 900 BC, started

       to conquer rest of Mesopotamia

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Item #6

Why Were the Assyrians So Strong?

• Iron weapons!!!
• Soft?
• Hittites develop iron technology
• Heat iron ore
• Hammer
• Rapidly cool

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Item #7

First library in Nineveh

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Item #8

Chaldeans Accomplishments

7 day week

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Item #9

Chaldeans  with the Medes  defeat the Assyrian army

Babylon

Located on major trade route between Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf

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