empires of the fertile crescent
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Empires of the Fertile Crescent . * The movement of people across the Fertile Crescent resulted in the change of ideas. Sumerian Civilization. The Fertile Crescent gave rise to the Sumerian civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Empires of the Fertile Crescent
* The movement of people across the Fertile Crescent resulted in the change of ideas.
Sumerian Civilization› The Fertile Crescent gave rise to
the Sumerian civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley
i. Rivers: Tigris & Euphrates
Sumerian Civilization
ii. Sumerian Writing1. Cuneiform: earliest known form of
writing (symbol-based)
Sumerian Civilization
iii.Architecture and Science1.Ziggurats – wedding cake-shaped
temples 2.First to develop and use the wheel3.Math- 60
Sumerian Civilization
iv. City-State: included a town or city and the surrounding land controlled by it.
v. Religion: Believed in a shadowy
lower world afterlife
Empires of the Fertile Crescent
a. Akkadians1. Sargon of Akkad- had first empire in
Sumeria
Empires of the Fertile Crescent
b. Babyloniansi. Code of Hammurabi
- 1st major collection of laws
Empires of the Fertile Crescent
c. Hittites: Invaders that had iron technology
d. Assyrians: Most feared warriors of Sumeria
› Kings control througha harsh code of justice
Empires of the Fertile Crescent
e. Chaldeans› Nebuchadnezzar
Ruthless king who encouraged Babylonian learning he received from the Assyrians
Empires of the Fertile Crescent
e. Persians1. Cyrus the Great
Captured Babylon in 539 BC & freed the Jews from captivity
2. Darius United Persian Empire
Culture Religion
› Zoroaster: a Sumerian prophet that taught that evil and righteousness were in constant battle
Culture Farming
› More difficult than Egypt because the flooding was unpredictable