1. Babylonia and Assyria
Chapter 2 Lesson 3

2. The Rise of Hammurabi and Babylonia
Babylon: city-state of Mesopotamia
Hammurabi: king of Babylon 1792 B.C.
Clever leader, sought great power
Controlled all of Southern Mesopotamia & neighboring city-states
Empire was known as Babylonia
Collected taxes throughout empire to support army and pay for building projects

3. Babylonian Civilization
Babylon was center of culture and learning
Code of Hammurabi
Set of 282 laws that governed the empire
Combined Sumerian and Akkadian laws:
Business
Property
Medical
Marriage
Children

4. Different punishments based on the lawbreaker’s class & victim of crime
“Eye for an eye” and “tooth for a tooth”

6. The Assyrians Northern Mesopotamia Influenced by Babylonia’s culture
Great warriors
In power in N Mesopotamia 1900 to 600 B.C.
688 B.C. to 627 B.C. most powerful time for Assyria

7. Babylonia Grows 605 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar II, new king of Babylon
Controlled much of Assyria
Returned Babylon to greatness:
Tower of Babel
Hanging Gardens

8. Tower of Babel

9. Hanging Gardens

11. Babylon was a trading city
Center of learning
Mathematics
Astronomy

12. When Nebuchadnezzar II died so did the Babylonian Empire
Persians conquered in 539 B.C.