Assorted Ancient Civilizations

________ (669-627 BC), dominates Persia, but his death led to decline

Other Anatolian people the ______ (first to use coins) and the Celtic-speaking _______

______ campaigns throughout fertile crescent

Most famous for Hammurabi, their leader who developed a code of laws

Bronze/Iron Age people of Anatolia, Capital at Hattusas

2334-2154 BC-Their language becomes diplomatic lingua franca of Middle East displacing Sumerian

Noted for cities of Sidon, Tyre(conquered by Alexander), & Byblos (famous for writing)

Founded the city of Carthage, later antagonist of Rome and home of Dido

This ancient civilization was defeated by Hammurabi and supplanted by the Medes and Persians

Hittites worshipped

Reforms of ________ led to prominence

"The Destruction of Sennacherib" is a poem by _______

Famous for purple dye derived from snails and cedars

Defeated Elamites and Eshnunna en route to founding a short-lived empire throughout Mesopotamia

Spoke Aramaic, Semitic language of Jesus

______ allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem

Had capital first at Assur, later and more famously at Nineveh

Sargon the Great reigned over this civilization for 50 years, conquered Sumer at Battle of Uruk

Lived in present day Lebanon; source of the alphabet, traders throughout the Mediterranean

_______ destroyed the temple at Jerusalem, brought Jews to Babylon in the Babylonian Captivity

This civilization lived to the east of Sumer in present day Iran

Led most famously by Nebuchadnezzar II who constructed the Hanging Gardens