chapter 4 lesson 2 presentation
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What happened to the Akkadian Empire?
What Empires came after Akkad?
What happened to Sumer?
1) SACK OF BABYLON
a. Babylon was powerful for hundreds of yearsb. Mershilis I of the Hittites sacked itc. The Babylonians rebuilt the city, but it was less powerful
2) ASSYRIA
a. Religioni. The Assyrians believed that
their chief god Ashur wanted them to spread his order and influence to the entire world
ii. Ashur was only worshipped in Assyria
iii. So Assyria was good, everywhere else was bad and had to be attacked
b. Military technologyi. Siege towersii. Horsesiii. They built roads to
get places faster
To see the king, you had to make an appointment
Then you had to walk through these:
iii. Then you had to walk down a hallway full of pictures like this:
iv. Then you got to meet the king
d. Policy of Exile:i. Exile: forced removal from one’s own homelandii. When the Assyrians conquered a country, they would sometimes send the people that lived there someplace else
3) ASSYRIA STARTS EXPANDING
a. First: They attacked their neighbors the Mitanni
b. King Tiglath-Pileser:
i. Conquered Babylon
ii. Conquered the Urartu
iii. Beat up the Medes
iv. Conquered Syriav. Conquered
Phoenicia
vi. Attacked Israela. There were two Hebrew kingdoms at the time
vii. Conquered thema. He exiled them to other parts of the Assyrian Empire
viii. Conquered the Philistines
x. Made Judah pay tribute1) Tribute: money paid to a conquering ruler for protection
d. King Sennacherib:i. Went to war with Judah
a. Attacked Jerusalem b. His army got sick and died
ii. Babylon rebelled i. He destroyed Babylon
iii. He was killed
e. King Ashurbanipal
i. Babylon rebelled again
a. He defeated themii. Conquest of Elamiii. Conquest of Egypt
4) THE MEDES RETURNED
a. The Medes attacked the Assyrian homeland
b. The Babylonians came to helpc. The Assyrian army was spread out all
overi. To keep people from rebelling
d. The Assyrians lost
5) WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ASSYRIANS?
a. They were killedi. The Assyrian cities
were destroyedii. Only farming
villages were left
b. Assyria was never powerful again