Download Mesopotamia Chart for Smartboard filled in.notebook

Mesopotamia Chart for Smartboard filled in.notebook
Empire
Sumer
Ruler
(floods & blood)
Babylonians
Achievements
Problems
City­states with Constant floods and
different kings warfare
King
Hammurabi
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Assyrians
conquered them.
­ Invented 1st writing called Cuneiform
­ Plumbing with clay pipes
­Invented the wheel
­ Built ziggurats (temples)
­ He united the city­states of Sumer
­ Babylon was a center of trade with
Sumer to the south & Akkad to the north.
­ Hammurabi's Code: he carved laws of land into stone stele
Assyrians
New Babylonian
Empire
­ Medes
­ Chaldeans
King Sargon II
King
Nebuchadnezzar
II
Open to invaders
since in middle of desert.
­ Experts @ waging war and invented the battering ram
­ Built the library at Nineveh filled with clay tablets
Conquered by outside
invaders in 539 B.C.
(City of Babylon was
spared)
­ They rebuilt the city of Babylon
­ Nebuchadnezzar II created "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" for his wife. It was one of 7 Wonders of the Ancient World & it used water wheel. ­ Chaldean astronomers
calculated the length of the year by studying the stars
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