Analyze the civilizations of Mesopotamia (Sumer c. 3500 BCE, Akkad c. 2334 BCE, Babylon c. 1894 BCE, Assyria c. 2000-609 BCE) — including ziggurats, city-states, kingship, polytheistic religion, and the invention of cuneiform writing (c. 3200 BCE)
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~3 min
hist.g6.f.ex_05
Ordering
Prompt
Place the Mesopotamian political sequence in chronological order: (a) Babylon under Hammurabi; (b) Sumer city-states; (c) Akkadian Empire under Sargon; (d) Achaemenid Persian Empire; (e) Neo-Assyrian Empire.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
ordered sequence
correct
bcaed
Hints
- Sumer is earliest.
- Achaemenid Persia ended the Mesopotamian native-empire sequence in 539 BCE.
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing Babylonian and Persian empires
- Forgetting the Akkadian Empire as the first empire
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