Ashurbanipal
king of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC)
Assyria
a southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 BC
Chaldeans
a southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire
Medes
a southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire
Nebuchadnezzar
A Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nineveh
an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq
Sennacherib
king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC)