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1. Name the first great conqueror known to history who led the Akkadians to overrun the Sumerians.
Answer: Sargon
2. Name the great king of the Amorites who made Babylon his capital and created a famous code of laws.
Answer: Hammurabi
3. Which group of people divided the circle into 360 degrees and the hour into 60 minutes?
Answer: Babylonians
4. Name this last important capital of Assyria which fell in 612 B.C.
Answer: Ninevah
5. Which group captured Babylon in 539 B.C.?
Answer: Persians
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