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The First Empires, Vocab - Coggle Diagram
The First Empires
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Babylonian
Ruler
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Hammurabi's Code
dealt with crimes, farming, business, marriage, and the family
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Known of "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth"
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later law codes, such as those of Greece and Rome
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Assyrian
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Politics
about 1,000 years after the empire of Hammurabi
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Assyrians had law codes, but their punishments were harsher
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Military
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slingshots, bows and arrows, swords, and spears
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made up of infantry, or foot soldiers; cavalry, or horse soldiers; and charioteers
robbed people, set crops on fire, and destroyed towns and dams
Assyrian successes, iron weapons
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25,000 tablets of stories and songs to the gods
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650 b.c., fighting broke out over who would be the next Assyrian ruler
Challdean
Ruler
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627 b.c., Nabopolassar led a revolt against the Assyrians
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Nabopolassar and his son, Nebuchadnezzar created the empire
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Politics
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break free from Assyrian rule, joined the Chaldeans
612 b.c., they captured the Assyrian capital of Nineveh and burned it to the ground
descendants of the Babylonians who made up Hammurabi's empire about 1,200 years earlier
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beautiful street lined with limestone and marble, and lined with walls of blue glaze tile
Babylon to watch a gold statue of the god Marduk wheeled along the street. Chaldeans believed that the ceremony would bring peace and bigger crops
new canals, making it more fertile
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artisans made pottery, cloth, and baskets
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539 b.c., the Persians recognized that the Chaldeans had lost their strength
Phoenicians
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Politics
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North and East, mountains
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Vocab
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caravan
a group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels
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