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Vocabulary and Places

The document provides information about places, people, and vocabulary terms from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations including Babylon, Assyria, Nineveh, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Nebuchadnezzae II. It defines places like Babylon and Assyria and people like Hammurabi, the sixth king of Babylon, Ashurbanipal, the last great king of Assyria, and Nebuchadnezzae II, the longest reigning king of Babylon. It also defines the Code of Hammurabi, one of the oldest deciphered legal codes.

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Vocabulary and Places

The document provides information about places, people, and vocabulary terms from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations including Babylon, Assyria, Nineveh, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Nebuchadnezzae II. It defines places like Babylon and Assyria and people like Hammurabi, the sixth king of Babylon, Ashurbanipal, the last great king of Assyria, and Nebuchadnezzae II, the longest reigning king of Babylon. It also defines the Code of Hammurabi, one of the oldest deciphered legal codes.

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Vocabulary and Places

Places

Babylon: Was the capital city of the ancient Babylonian empire, which itself is a term
referring to either of two separate empires in the Mesopotamian area in antiquity.

Babylonia: Was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in


central-southern Mesopotamia. A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BCE, which
contained the minor administrative town of Babylon.

Assyria: Also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the
ancient Near East in the area today known as the Levant that existed as a state from
perhaps as early as the 25th century BC until its collapse between 612 BC and 609 BC –
spanning the periods of the Early to Middle Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age.

Nineveh: Was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of
Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq.

People

Hammurabi: Was the sixth king of the First Babylonian dynasty of the Amorite tribe, reigning
from c. 1792 BC to c. 1750 BC. He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated
due to failing health. During his reign, he conquered Elam and the city-states of Larsa,
Eshnunna, and Mari. He ousted Ishme-Dagan I, the king of Assyria, and forced his son
Mut-Ashkur to pay tribute, bringing almost all of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule.

Ashurbanipal: Was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father
Esarhaddon in 668 BC to his own death in 631 BC. The fourth king of the Sargonid dynasty,
Ashurbanipal is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria.

Nebuchadnezzae II: King of Babylon c. 605 BC – c. 562 BC, was the longest-reigning and
most powerful monarch of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Nebuchadnezzar ascended the
throne in 605 BC and subsequently fought several campaigns in the West, where Egypt was
trying to organize a coalition against him.

Vocabulary

Conquest: Is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms.


Terms

Code of Hammurabi: The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of


ancient Mesopotamia, dated to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of
significant length in the world.

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