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Agenda:
Chapter 4, lesson 3
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Homework: 11/28
Monday: Study for Chapter 4 Test
Tuesday: Chapter 5 Map Worksheet
Wednesday: Chapter 5, lesson 1 worksheet
Mesopotamian Empires
2350 B.C.
2000 B.C.
1100 B.C.
612 B.C.
550 B.C.
Akkadians – 2350 B.C. to 2150 B.C.
Babylonians 2000 B.C. to 1100 B.C.
Akkadian Empire
World’s first empire
 Emperor Sargon
 Began to spread
CULTURE
throughout
Mesopotamia

Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi’s code of law!!!!!
 Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
 Capital city Babylon
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Mesopotamian Empires
Akkadians – 2350 B.C. to 2150 B.C.
2350 B.C.
2000 B.C.
1100 B.C.
612 B.C.
550 B.C.
Babylonians 2000 B.C. to 1100 B.C.
Assyrians – 1100 B.C. to 600 B.C.
Assyrian Empire
Conquered Egypt
 Used iron weapons
 Cruel, fierce,
violent military
 Bad guys of the
Bible

Mesopotamian Empires
Nebuchadnezzar Akkadians
– 2350 B.C. to 2150 B.C.
2350 B.C.
2000 B.C.
1100 B.C.
612 B.C.
550 B.C.
Babylonians 2000 B.C. to 1100 B.C.
Assyrians – 1100 B.C. to 600 B.C.
Babylon
New Babylonians – 612 B.C. - 539 B.C.
Persians – 550 B.C. to 330 B.C.
New Babylonian / ChaldeanEmpire
King
Nebuchadnezzar II
 Hanging Gardens of
Babylon, Ishtar Gate
 Held the Hebrews
captive in Babylon
for 50 years
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Mesopotamian Empires
Akkadians – 2350 B.C. to 2150 B.C.
2350 B.C.
2000 B.C.
1100 B.C.
612 B.C.
550 B.C.
Babylonians 2000 B.C. to 1100 B.C.
Assyrians – 1100 B.C. to 600 B.C.
New Babylonians – 612 B.C. - 539 B.C.
Persians – 550 B.C. to 330 B.C.
Persian Empire
Cyrus and policy of toleration
 Darius – governors, Royal Road, minted coins
 MASSIVE empire –
Egypt, Israel,
Turkey,
Mesopotamia, Iran

Sardis
Darius Cyrus
Susa
Persian
Empire
500 B.C. to 330 B.C.