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Ancient Near Eastern Art
Question Sheet
Name: ____________________________
Name one of the independent city-states of the ancient civilisation of Sumer?
Where was Mesopotamia located?
What is the name of writing invented by the Sumerians?
What is the name of the first epic poem?
What is the name of one of the most renowned code of laws from this time?
What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
What two rivers is Mesopotamia bounded by?
In what way could artists help the careers of kings?
What is one of the most fundamental differences between the Prehistoric world and the
civilisations of the Ancient Near East?
What were the first great buildings of the ancient world?
What were these buildings made of?
What god was the Ziggurat at Ur dedicated to?
Name one other Sumerian god or goddess?
What tomb did the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discover?
Where was lapis lazuli sourced?
What is the name of the powerful king who united Mesopotamia in c. 2334 B.C.E?
What did this king use art as?
Complete the following sentence:
In 1792 B.C.E ________________________________emerged as a powerful cultural and
political power in Mesopotamia.
Who became the first king of the Babylonian Empire?
What did he create?
Complete the following sentences:
In 1595 B.C.E the ______________________________conquered Babylon. The Hittites
established an empire at ___________________________in Anatolia circa 1600 B.C.E.
What did the Hittites use as building material?
What was the Kingdom of Assyria named after?
What was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
What is the name of the winged human-headed animal figures which guarded the entrance
to the Palace of Sargon II?
What were they meant to ward off?
What was the capital of the Persian Empire?
Who built it?
Who destroyed it?
Who became the first king of New Babylon?
According to legend what did Nebuchadnezzar II build for his wife?
Name one of Nebuchadnezzar’s greatest architectural achievements?