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Mesopotamia - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Protected by large stone walls
      - Individual rulers
      - sometimes cities would go to war with each other
      - Started out with priests ruling with the help of important men
        
        Eventually became monarchies
        
        First kings were probably war heroes
        
        Eventually became hereditary
    - - Sargon, the King of Akkad
      - 2340 BCE Sumerian city-states weakened by conflict, Sargon moves armies south to conquer Sumer
      - Eventually Sargon's empire included all of the people in Mesopotamia
  - - - Ziggurats
- - - - Nabopolassar
        
        Led revolt against the Assyrians in 627 BCE
      - Nebuchadnezzar
        
        Rebuilt Babylon
  - - - Hanging Gardens of Babylon
        
        Terraced gardens
        
        Complex irrigation system
  - - - Marduk ceremony
      - Gods show their plans in the sky
- - - - Known for being brutal
      - Iron weapons key factor in their success
    - - Gov't built roads to connect their provinces
      - Officials in each province governed, collected taxes, and carried out laws
- - - - Creates code that deals with every area of life
        
        Code is a lot stricter than old Sumerian laws
        
        Meant to limit punishment and feuds
        
        Protected the less powerful
        
        Influenced later law codes, such as those in Greece and Rome
      - Thought to be a just ruler