Download Quaestio: What do the various strong rulers of the Ancient

Quaestio: What do the various strong
rulers of the Ancient Near East have in
common?
Nunc Agenda: Look at the seven class
rules on the poster on the wall. As a
group, decide what should be the
appropriate punishment for breaking
each rule.
QUIZ TOMORROW!
STUDY ALL THE REGIONS
AND BODIES OF WATER IN
THE MIDDLE EAST!
Four Regions for Today…
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Mesopotamia (modern Iraq/Syria)
Iranian Plateau (modern Iran)
Anatolia (modern Turkey)
Levant (modern Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, Israel, Palestine)
Meet the New Neighbors!
• Mesopotamia had no natural barriers to
invasion (mountains, seas, deserts)
• Many different groups conquered the
region in different times
– Sumerians
– Akkadians
– Babylonians
– Assyrians
– Persians
– Greeks
Akkadians
• 2300 BCE- Sargon, ruler of
Akkad, conquered
Sumerian city-states
• Created first ever EMPIRE!
(didn’t last long)
Sargon, King of Akkad, through the royal
gift of Ishtar was exalted, and he
possessed no foe nor rival. His glory over
the world he poured out. The Sea in the
East he crossed, and in the eleventh year
the Country of the West in its full extent
his hand subdued. He united them under
one control; he set up his images in the
West; their booty he brought over at his
word. Over the hosts of he world he
reigned supreme.
Against Kassala he marched, and he
turned Kassala into mounds and heaps of
ruins; he destroyed the land and left not
enough for a bird to rest thereon.
Afterward in his old age all the lands
revolted against him, and they besieged
him in Akkad; and Sargon went forth to
battle and defeated them; he
accomplished their overthrow, and heir
widespreading host he destroyed.
Afterward he attacked the land of Subartu
in his might, and they submitted to his
arms, and Sargon settled that revolt, and
defeated them;
he accomplished their overthrow, and
their widespreading host he destroyed,
and he brought their possessions into
Akkad. The soil from the trenches of
Babylon he removed, and the boundaries
of Akkad he made like those of Babylon.
But because of the evil which he had
committed, the great lord Marduk was
angry, and he destroyed his people by
famine. From the rising of he sun unto the
setting of the sun they opposed him and
gave him no rest.
Babylonians
• 1790 BCE- Hammurabi,
King of Babylon,
conquers Mesopotamia
• Created law code:
“Code of Hammurabi”
• Artisans carved huge
stone pillars that were
placed everywhere
• Civil & Criminal Law
• Made Marduk main god
Hittites
• From Asia Minor (aka
Anatolia)
• 1400 BCE spread to
Mesopotamia
• Built super awesome
chariots
• Spread the secret of
making iron tools and
weapons
Assyrians
• From northern
Mesopotamia
• Used iron weapons
• Loved to conquer to
please their god,
Assur
• Capital was Ninevah
• King Ashurbanipal
built one of the first
libraries
End of the Story… for now…
• Mespotamians kicked out the hated
Assyrians in 612 BCE
• Babylon came back in power under the
brutal King Nebuchadnezzar, who
expanded the empire and built the
hanging gardens
• Eventually, Mesopotamia was
conquered by the Persians (we’ll get to
them another day…)
Homework:
1. Study for the Middle East
Region Quiz tomorrow!
2. Go to mrcaseyhistory.com,
watch the video “Ancient Egypt:
Crash Course World History” and
answer the following questions