Author: Hannah Thornton

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Neo-Babylon & Chaldeans

The Chaldeans conquered the Assyrians.
Around 612 BCE—
___________________ rebuilt __________ and created the _______________________________, one of the Seven Wonders of the world.
Science: the Chaldeans were the first to identify five ______________.
Also, they created the _________________ to measure time.
Downfall: the empire was later conquered by the _____________.

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Mesopotamian Empires

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Sumeria

Sumeria was the ______ civilization in Mesopotamia and developed around ________.
Location: along the banks of the _________, around the __________ and ___________ rivers.
Government: Sumeria was a ____________, where God/gods are the ruler.
Independent _________ governed nearby area and each had its own ruler who believed his right to rule came from the ________.
Religion: Sumerians were ______________ & had about ________ gods and goddesses. _________ were often the tax collectors.
Writing & Education: in 3000 BCE they developed ___________, writing using wedge-shaped pictures. ___________ were professional writers and thanks to them history was recorded into words.
Downfall: the city-states fought each other for ________ & _________, which led to their downfall.

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Akkadia

The Akkadians, led by _________, conquered the lands of Sumer.
Government: Sargon united the city-states and formed the world’s first ___________. King Sargon 1 is considered the first ______ _______ in history.
Religion: they were also polytheistic.
Building: they built a system of __________ between cities to increase trade and communication.
Downfall: Akkadia lasted for about 50 years from 2334-2279 BCE before I was taken down by _________________.

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Babylon

Location: Babylonians lived in the __________ half of the fertile crescent.
Government: Most well-known leader is _______________, who conquered Sumer and Akkad, and created the Babylonian Empire around ____________ BCE.
______________________ is the list of 282 laws that they lived by. This was the first time laws and _______________ were written out. They were based on ____________________. But punishment varied based on the social class of the victim and the lawbreaker.
Society: Babylon was a _________________, which means the father is the supreme authority. So ___________ held most of the power in this empire.
Building: they build roads to help trade and travel. Merchants managed their own businesses.
Downfall: was conquered and destroyed in the early 1500s BCE.

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Assyria

Assyria arose around 1400 BCE.
Location: occupied the _______________ part of Mesopotamia in what is now __________. This area was easy for enemies to get into so the Assyrians learned to be skilled ______________ with a well-trained _______. They used _______ weapons and _________. They conquered lands from the _______ river to the ____________ Gulf. They developed a horse and rider system of communication that could get messages anywhere in the empire in __________.
Government: Kings ruled the empire with _______________ power. _______________ was the most important leader and ruled from 722 to 705 BCE.
Education & Writing: King Ashurbanipal had a library built in ___________, one of the world’s first libraries, and it held over ________ tablets.
Downfall: they were defeated by the Medes, the Persians, and the Scythians in 612 BCE.