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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Hittites.info
- The Phoenician alphabet
- Assyrian artifacts at the British Museum
- “The Origin of Money and Its Value” by Robert Murphy
- Zoroastrianism.com
Empire Builders – Quiz
- Nebuchadnezzar II was the most famous ruler of the _________ empire
- The ______ civilization is credited with being the first to develop currency.
- True/False: It can be proved historically that money originated as a way for governments to manage commerce in their territories more efficiently.
- True/False: The Assyrian armies made a practice of deporting conquered populations from their homes and scattering them throughout the Assyrian Empire in an attempt to assimilate them.
- Which civilization is credited with the invention of the alphabet?
- Which military technology were the Hittites one of the first peoples to master?
- Which of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world was located in Babylon?
- Zoroastrianism became the dominant religion of the ________ civilization; it posits an ongoing struggle between the good god _________ and the evil god Ahriman.
- _______ was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
- Chaldean (or Neo-Babylonian)
- Lydian
- False
- True
- Phoenicians
- ironworking
- Hanging Gardens
- Persian; Ahuramazda
- Nineveh