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Chapter 25 section 4 Asia: Shaped By History SOUTHWEST ASIA pg.476 Ch.25 sec.4 Asia: Shaped By History SOUTHWEST ASIA pg.476 Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Setting the Scene pg.476 Hammurabi’s Code “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” “If the robber is not caught, the man who has been robbed shall formally declare whatever he has lost… and the city and the mayor… shall replace whatever he has lost for him.” This stele or carving is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Written in Cuneiform Writing Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Setting the Scene pg.476 A priest (sitting) is proclaiming Hammurabi as royalty (king) Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Setting the Scene pg.476 Some of Hammurabi’s Codes from the stele There were originally 282 laws or codes Written in the ancient writing of Mesopotamia called Cuneiform Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Hanging Gardens of Babylon Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Hanging Gardens of Babylon Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Hanging Gardens of Babylon Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon A piece of the actual gate is in Detroit at the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts) Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Mesopotamia and the “fertile crescent” Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Mesopotamia and the “fertile crescent” Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Mesopotamia and the “fertile crescent” Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA VIDEO BREAK: Mesopotamia 1 min 2 sec Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Summarians Assyrians Babylonians Way later in history the Persians also ruled this area Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Euphrates River (Iraq) Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA Tigris River (Iraq) Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA MESOPOTAMIA VIDEO BREAK: The Ancient Middle East 5 min 10 sec Ch.25 sec.4 All three religions developed in the same area… the Middle East and consider some of the same land as holy land. SOUTHWEST ASIA Politcal Boundaries Intensify Conflicts and Challenges Judaism 1000 BCE Christianity 1st Century CE Islam 600 CE Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Political Boundaries Intensify Conflicts and Challenges Ch.25 sec.4 Palestine Flag SOUTHWEST ASIA Arab-Israeli Conflict Israel Flag Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Wars with Iraq Operation Desert Storm - 1st Persian Gulf War (1991) Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Wars with Iraq Saddam Hussein Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Wars with Iraq Operation Desert Storm - 1st Persian Gulf War (1991) Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Wars with Iraq Operation Iraqi Freedom - 2nd Persian Gulf War (2003) Ch.25 sec.4 SOUTHWEST ASIA Wars with Iraq The Capture of Saddam Hussein