1. Put the following dates in order:
Timelines
Put the following dates in order:
A.D B.C. – A.D. 800 –
800 B.C. – A.D. 1200

2. Timelines B.C. – Before Christ – Letters go after year 800 B.C.
A.D. - Anno Domini – In the year of our Lord
Letters go before the year . A.D. 1
Time goes down to year 1 and then back up

3. Babylon & Assyria What happened to Mesopotamia after Sargon died?
Hammurabi desired to rebuild Mesopotamia’s unity…………………………
Did he succeed?

4. Fact or Fiction?

5. The city walls of Babylon
were reconstructed.
What role did the walls play?

6. What happened to his empire when he died?
Hammurabi
Very powerful
Flooded people or forced a drought
Built a great trade route
Created a code of law
Was the 2nd emperor of Mesopotamia
Ruled with unfair justice
Women had no legal rights. (How did that differ from Sargon’s rule?)
What happened to his empire when he died?

7. Babylon vs. Assyria Babylon Assyria Used battering rams
Fought w/Assyria Chariots
Respected culture Had slaves
Loved arts, writing Women had no legal rights
Major trade route Stole records from Babylon
Powerful home of King Fought continually w/Babylon
Had control of river