1. Get Out A Blank Piece Of Paper
Write your name at the top
List 2 or 3 reasons why you think one country might invade another country?
Explain your thinking…
5 minutes to do this
Turn in on the front table
Pick up a notes sheet off the table
Find and match vocabulary with their definitions on the notes sheet… use your reading packet to help

2. Fertile Crescent Unit 3 Mesopotamia: Babylonia and Assyria Section 2
Jordan Cotten
6th Grade Social Studies

3. Vocabulary
__________ = many territories and people who are controlled by one government
__________ = group of traders traveling together
__________ = a market selling different kinds of goods
Empire
Caravan
Bazaar

4. Biggest and most important civilizations in Mesopotamia:
Empires of
Babylonia
Assyria

5. These Empires Had Three Things In Common:
1. Quest for riches
2. Vicious warriors
3. Culture and learning were highly valued

7. Babylonia in Mesopotamia
City of Babylon center of empire
Reached height in 1750 B.C.
King Hammurabi created Babylonian empire by uniting city-states of Sumer
Conquered lands from Asia Minor to Turkey

9. Babylon’s Location Crossroads of trade
Numerous caravans stopped in Babylon
Many items could be bought in bazaars here
Cotton cloth from India
Spices from Egypt
Trade and conquest made Babylon
rich

10. Wealth Through Conquest
Conquering places gave great rewards
1760 B.C. King Hammurabi conquered city of Mari
Chariots
Weapons
Tools
These were the best in the world
All their wealth did not save them
Babylon was conquered by 1600 B.C.

12. Assyria in Mesopotamia
North of Babylon
Got their name from city of Assur
Nineveh was its capital city
Location made it vulnerable to invasion
Constantly defending themselves led to Assyrians become skilled warriors
Changed their tactic… began attacking
650 B.C. Empire stretched from Nile River to Persian Gulf

15. Assyrian’s Contributions
Fantastic and super large library
Nineveh became center of learning
War geniuses:
Invented battering ram
Helmets and armor
Slingers
Expert archers
Armed charioteers

16. Assyrian’s Harsh Rule
King Sargon II heard that the Kingdoms of Urartu and Zikirtu joined together to defeat him
714 B.C. Sargon set out to “muzzle the mouths” of his enemies
Easily defeated Urartu and Zikirtu and killed anyone who resisted

17. Assyrian Enemies
Because of their methods and their harsh rule, Assyrians had many enemies
Conquered peoples continually rebelled
Two groups had successful rebellion
Chaldeans
Medes
Joined together: conquered Assyrians 612 B.C.

18. Babylonia Rises Again Under Chaldean rule New Babylonian Empire
King Nebuchadenezzar II rebuilt city
Massive walls around city
Huge palace; built on several terraces
Center of learning and science

19. New Babylonian Contributions
Astronomers charted paths of stars
Measured length of year (only off by a few minutes)
Raised bees (“the flies which collect honey”)

20. New Babylonia Falls Location made the New Babylonia open to invaders
539 B.C. conquered by neighbors
City of Babylon was spared

21. Why do you think one country might decide to invade another?

22. Why was Mesopotamia constantly being invaded?
History of this land is filled with stories of conquest
Land worth taking:
Brought wealth
After taking the land… you become new target for other conquerors

23. Exit Ticket Get out a blank piece of paper
Write your name at the top of your paper
Answer the following questions
Write the question, skip a line and answer the question
Skip a line between the answer and the next question

24. Exit Ticket
Question 1:
Why did civilizations rise and fall in Mesopotamia?
Question 2:
How did Babylon’s location affect what happened to it?
Question 3:
What accomplishments are Assyria known for?

25. Why did civilizations rise and fall in Mesopotamia?
Conflict
Conquest
Reorganization of Power and Wealth

26. How did Babylon’s location affect what happened to it?
Babylon was a convenient center of trade
People from many places traveled to Babylon
Influence of trade and ideas from other places helped Babylon become wealthy center for learning and science
Because of this… Babylon became very rich

27. What accomplishments is Assyria known for?
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