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36 Cards in this Set
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Uruartu was formed from several small kingdoms to protect themselves from which state? |
Assyrians |
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What geographical advantage did the kingdom of Uruartu have for defence? |
Mountains |
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The Assyrian empire expanded to its greatest extent under which ruler? |
Ashurbanipal |
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Which state did Ashurbanipal defeat? |
Elamites (destroyed Susa) |
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Where was the capital of Assyria moved to by Sennacherib? |
Nineveh |
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A cache of 25,000 clay tablets was discovered at Nineveh. What information did these clay tablets contain? |
Diplomatic records, medical & religious texts and the Epic of Gilgamesh |
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What did the Assyrian's use to link their cities together? |
Hollow ways |
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Aside from agriculture, what did the Assyrian's use irrigation for? |
Imperial parks & hunting reserves |
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Which states destroyed the cities of Assyria following the death of Ashurbanipal? |
Medes and Babylonians |
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Which state took control of Nineveh following the collapse of the Assyrian empire? |
Babylon |
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Who reconstructed the Assyrian empire while under Neo-Babylonian control? |
Nebuchadnezzar |
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Who excavated the city of Babylon? |
Robert Koldewey |
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Where was the Temple of Marduk located? |
Babylon |
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Where is the Ishtar Gate located? |
Babylon |
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Who was Nebuchadnezzar's successor? |
Nabonidus |
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What happened in Anatolia following the fall of the Hittites? |
Dark age |
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Which civilization ruled the Anatolian plateau from the capital of Gordium by the 8th century BC? |
Phrygians |
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Where is King Midas' tomb located? |
Gordium |
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Which civilization rose following the decline of the Phrygian's? |
Lydian's |
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Who was the famous king of the Lydian's that was killed by the Persian's? |
King Croesus |
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Where was the Lydian capital located? |
Sardis |
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Lydian's minted the world's first coins with what substance? |
Electrum (gold & silver alloy) |
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What did the Lydian's stamp on their coins? |
Ox or lion |
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Which civilization conquered the Lydian's? |
Persian Empire |
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Where was the capital of Medes located? |
Ecbatana |
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Which Median king invaded Mesopotamia in 614 BC? |
King Cyaxares |
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Who freed the Persian's from Median control and turned Persia into a dominant power? |
Cyrus the Great |
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What empire did Cyrus the Great found? |
Achaemenid Empire (Pasargadee capital) |
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What title did Cyrus the Great receive/take? |
Shah |
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The Cyrus Cylinder is sometimes stated to be the oldest know declaration of what? |
Declaration of Human Rights |
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Who ruled the Achaemenid Empire to its peak? |
Darius the Great |
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A memorial of Darius' reign is located where? |
Behistun |
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The memorial of Darius played a key role in the decipherment of what script? |
Cuneiform script |
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Who translated the Behistun inscriptions in 1846? |
Henry Rawlinson |
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Who deciphered Elamite script in 1855? |
Edwin Norris |
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Which 2 people deciphered the Babylonian script (Akkadian)? |
Henry Rawlinson Edward Hincks |
