Mesopotamian empires. text

Akkadian Empire. (Akkad)

Babylonian Empire.

Now Iraq.

Built upon the advances of the Sumerians.

Located on eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

Empire occupied the middle and Southern part of Mesopotamia.

Grandest of cities

Assyrian Empire

Powerful military. (Defended hills and fertile valleys)

Arose about 1,000 years after empire of Hammurabi)

900 BC army became taking over Mesopotamia.)

Army well trained

Fought with slingshots, bows and arrows, swords, and spears.

Army drove people from homes

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Peace broken between Akkadians and Sumerians in 2300s BC.

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Developed along Tigris and Euphrates.

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Positioned between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

First written mention of Babylon dates to 3800 B.C.

Stretched from present- day city of Baghdad, Iraq, south to the Persian Gulf.

604 B.C 7,000 Jews were brought back to Babylonia as Prisoners

606 B.C King Nabopolassar helped conquer Assyrian capital of Nineveh and used oppurtunity to establish own kingdom.

Hammurabi ruled from 1792-1750 B.C

Ruled in Mesopotamia from 1400-600 B.C.

Tower of Babel was a ziggurat.

Builders thought they could build a tower high in the sky very proud of it, but made God angry. Punished by people of the world divided by being made to speak different languages

Tower of Babel and Babylonian empire destroyed by Persians around 478 B.C

Golden Temple

Kept water lush and green by complex water system.

Hamurabi took throne in 1792 B.C. (Was skilled statesman and warrior.)

Assyria slowly grew to be a powerful kingdom.

Used chariots, battering rams and armored horses

Conquered Babylonia in 689 B.C.

612 B.C everything fell apart.

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Phonecians

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high seas

1000 BC

created color purple

created alphabet

sailed from island to island

expert trading and sea

temple dominated center city

communicate by sarcophagus/tomb

sarcophagus oldest of writing

found carthrage now very important

traded ivory color purple slaves

tied selves to boat when stormy

masks used to dcare off dpirits.

traded gold, iron etc for jewels

great at glass making

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injury

Hammurabi code= law