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Title: Empires of Mesopotamia


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Empires of Mesopotamia
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2350 BC Sargon and the Akkadians Conquer
Mesopotamia
612 BC The Chaldeans took over the Assyrians
1590 BC The Kassites took control from the
Hittites and ruled Mesopotamia
900 BC The Assyrians loss power but regained it
and started taking all of the region
7000 BC 1st farm settlements were formed in
Mesopotamia
1792 BC Hammurabi became King of Babylon
1200 BC The Assyrians had their 1st campaign as
rulers of the Fertile Crescent
3000 BC Several thousand Sumerians had settled in
Mesopotamia
1800 BC The Babylonian Empire took control of
Mesopotamia
652 BC A Series of wars broke out inside the
Assyrian Empire and weakened their power.
1595 BC The Hittites conquered the powerful
Babylon Empire with use of CHARIOTS
2000 BC The Strong Civilization of Ur loses power
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1st Settlements
  • Farmers
  • No longer needed to hunt and gather
  • City-States Started to form
  • Strong central city and the country side around
    it
  • Worlds 1st Civilizations Began

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Sumeria
  • Worlds 1st Civilizations Began
  • Empires began to spread throughout Mesopotamia
  • land with different territories and people under
    a single rule.
  • AKKADIAN EMPIRE
  • Sargon ruled from 2334-2279 BC
  • 1st Permanent Army

5
Sumeria
  • Religion
  • Polytheism the worship of many Gods
  • Priests performed or led religious ceremonies
  • Ziggurats pyramid shaped temple to worship the
    Gods

6
Sumeria
  • Social Heirarchy Division of society by rank or
    class (Who is most important and who is least
    important)

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Sumeria
  • Achievements
  • Cuneiform Worlds 1st writing system
  • Wheel
  • Plow
  • Built Sewer Systems
  • Bronze Tools and Weapons
  • Great mathematicians
  • Calendar
  • 12 Month year
  • Great Builders
  • Awesome ART

8
Babylon
  • Babylonian Empire
  • 1800 BC 1595 BC
  • Hammurabi
  • Brilliant War Leader
  • Increased Trade to Mesopotamia
  • Hammurabis Code set of 282 laws that dealt
    with almost every part of daily life
  • inscribed on a tall basalt pillar.

9
3200-2000 BCE Sumer Babylon
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The Hittites and Kassites
  • Hittites
  • 1595 BC ruled for only a short time
  • Strong Kingdom
  • Used Chariots
  • Mastered Ironworking
  • Kassites
  • Took over Mesopotamia while the Hittites were in
    tough times.
  • 1600 1200 BC

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Assyrians
  • Assyrian Empire
  • 1200 652 BC
  • Long lasting empire but swayed until 900 BC when
    they started taking control of all of
    Mesopotamia.
  • Strong Army
  • Iron Weapons and Chariots
  • Killed anyone in their way
  • The King ruled his large empire through local
    leaders.

12
Chaldeans
  • The Assyrian Empire had wars over who should be
    King and weakened their major empire.
  • Chaldean Empire took advantage of the weakened
    state of the Assyrians and took control in 612 BC
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