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Title: Ancient Mesopotamia


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Ancient Mesopotamia
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Fertile Crescent was flat so open to constant
attack
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Cylinder Seal
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Urban Life
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Model of Urs Ziggurat
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Ziggurat at Ur
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Bull-headed lyre
Ram in the Thicket
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Standard of Ur
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Cuneiform
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Cuneiform Table of Epic of Gilgamesh
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Gold Sword Helmet
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Royal Tombs at Ur
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Priest from Liggash
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Gate of Ishtar
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8th gate into Babylon built by Nechadnez-zar
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Code of Hammurabi
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  • Shamash, the supreme sun god judge, offers
    Hammurabi the rod and ring symbolizing authority.
  • Symbols derived from builders' tools (measuring
    stick coiled rope).
  • Implicates that the king should build social
    order, which proves the kings power duty.
  • The stele asserts the divine sanction of
    Hammurabi's power, and that the social order he
    constructs reflects divine order.

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Assyrians
  • I destroyed, I demolished, I burned. I took
    their warriors prisoner and impaled them on
    stakes before their cities. flayed the nobles,
    as many as had rebelled, and spread their skins
    out on the piles of dead corpses many of the
    captives I burned in a fire. Many I took alive
    from some I cut off their hands to the write,
    from other I cut off their noses, ears and
    fingers I put out the eyes of many of the
    soldiers."

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Chariots and Iron
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Palace of Persepolis built by Darius finished by
Xerxes
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Persepolis Mt. Rahmat
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Gate of all Nations
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Xerxes Immortals from the Palace of Susa
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Capital from Susa
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Temple of Solomon
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