Download Ancient Egypt and Mesopotania

8-26-2005
•It’s Friday!
•Take out your notes
over Ancient Egypt!
•Study for our oral
review game!
Empires
of
Ancient
Mesopotamia
Overview of Empires
1. The Akkadians
2. The Babylonians
3. The Hittites
4. The Assyrians
5. The Persians
•2300 B.C.  Sargon, ruler of
Akkad, invaded Sumer
•1790 B.C.  Hammurabi,
king of Babylon, invaded
Mesopotamia.
(H’s Code: “Eye for an eye”)
•1400 B.C.  Hittites invaded
Mesopotamia
•1100 B.C.  Assyrians
expanded across Mesopotamia
(Most feared warriors)
•612 B.C.  Nebuchadnezzar
revived Babylon
(Persian Gulf to
Mediterranean Sea)
•539 B.C.  Babylon fell to the
Persian armies of Cyrus the
Great
•Persian Empire stretched
from Asia Minor to India.
•Darius (522-486 B.C.)
– Provinces, laws, roads, common
weights and measures
•Zoroaster (600 B.C.)
– One god, Ahura Mazda
•Phoenicians  sea traders
along the Mediterranean Sea
Instructions for Mapwork
Ancient EgyptUse the map on
page 26
1. Locate and label:
a) Asia Minor
g) Libyan Desert
b) Lower Egypt h) Arabian Desert
c) Upper Egypt
d) Nile River
e) Mediterranean Sea
f) Red Sea
2.Shade the Egyptian
Empire using any color
3.Shade the Hittite Empire
using a different color
4. Create a key showing
which colors represent
which empire
Ancient Middle East use map
on page 35
1. Locate and Label:
a) Mediterranean Sea
b)Red Sea
h) Tigris River
c) Black Sea i) Euphrates River
d)Caspian Sea
e) Persian Gulf
f) Caucasus Mountains
g) Zagros Mountains
2. Shade the Fertile Crescent using any
color
3. Shade Sumer a different color
4. Shade Akkad using a third color
5. Outline the Babylonian Empire
using a fourth color
6. Draw diagonal black lines to
represent the Persian Empire (pg
40)
7. Outline the Assyrian Empire using a
fifth color (pg 40)
8. Create a key showing what all colors
or symbols represent!