Mesopotamian Civilizations

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Mesopotamian Civilizations

• Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians,
  Neo-Babylonians
• Cool web links!
• Akkadians, Babylonians,
• Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians

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Akkadians

• 2300 BCE
• Sargon of Akkad
• Combat strategies
• Front line shields
• Spears through shield wall
• Destroyed city walls
• Three-dimensional sculpture
• Victory Stele

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Babylonians

• Hammurabis accomplishments
• Roads
• Postal service
• Irrigation systems maintained
• Marduk main god
• Code of Laws
• Applied to all
• Different consequences if high status

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Assyrians

• Aqueducts
• Bas-relief
• Military infamous
• Advantages horses and iron weapons (Frey, 56)
• Conquest through sieges
• Defeated people moved away from homes
• Forced conquered to wear leaders severed heads

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Neo-Babylonians

• Nebuchadrezzars achievements
• City safety
• Walls
• Chariots drive on wall top
• Moats
• Conquered Hebrews
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• Real?
• For homesick princess

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Sources

• Carr, Dr. Karen. Akkadians. http//www.historyfo
  rkids.org/learn/westasia/history/akkadians.htm
  (19 Sept. 2009).
• Carr, Dr. Karen. Assyrians. http//www.historyfo
  rkids.org/learn/westasia/history/assyrians.htm
  (19 Sept. 2009).
• Carr, Dr. Karen. Hammurabi of Babylon.
  http//www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/histo
  ry/hammurabi.htm (19 Sept. 2009).
• Carr, Dr. Karen. Neo-Babylonians.
  http//www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/histo
  ry/babylonians.htm (19 Sept. 2009).
• Frey, Wendy. History Alive! The Ancient World.
  Palo Alto Teachers Curriculum Institute, 2004.
  p. 51-59.