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Mesopotamian Empires, Vocab Words, After Nebuchadnezzar died the Chaldean…
Mesopotamian Empires
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First empires
Civilizations first devolved in around 3000
B.C. They all needed water and food to survive. They all had different social classes and laws. Throughout the years the civilizations evolved to become a lot better. They made systems and beliefs that gave meaning to their lives.
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Vocab Words
Astronomers are a person who studies stars, the planet, and the phases of the moon as it changed. Scribe a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper. Empire a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler. Tribute a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender. Province a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire. Caravan
After Nebuchadnezzar died the Chaldean Empire was ruled by a bunch of weak rulers. Poor harvests and slow trade further weakened the empire. The Persians then realized that the Chaldean Empire was starting to weaken then took over. But let them keep their culture and customs.
The Persians are a group of people that took over the Chaldean Empire. They realized that the Chaldean Empire was starting to get weaker because of the new rulers and took over. They also didn't want to destroy all that the Chaldean's have done so they let the land keep its distinct culture.
The Assyrian empire came about 1000 years after the empire of Hammurabi Assyrian was the size of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq.
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The Chaldean empire is a empire who took over Assyria. After a lot of fighting and war with Assyria.
Hammurabi was a leader of the Amorites and the king of Babylon. Hammurabi wanted to be a fair leader he thought the punishments should be equal to the crime. If you cut off someone's leg you would have your leg cut off for whatever crime you committed. Hammurabi's code was a large thing of laws.
The Assyrian army was made up of 50,000 people. The Assyrians started to take over Mesopotamia. The Assyrians robbed people, set crops of fire, and destroyed towns and dams.
Sargon went one by one concurring the last of the Sumerian city-states. Sargon then extended his empire to include all the people of Mesopotamia into his empire.