| A | B |
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| Babylon | a city-state in Mesopotamia |
| Babylonia | an empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-states |
| Assyria | a region at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Upper Tigris River Valley |
| Nineveh | the capital of the Assyrian Empire and the site of a great library under King Ashurbanipal |
| Hammurabi | King of Babylon who came to rule all of Mesopiotamia and established a written code of laws known as the Code of Hammurabi |
| Ashurbanipal | King of Assyria from 668 B.C. to 627 B.C. when it was at its largest and most powerful |
| Nebuchadenezzar II | Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took over much of the former Assyrain Empire and ordered massive building projects |
| conquest | the defeat of another group |
| Code of Hammurabi | a set of laws established by Hammurabi |
