Bell Ringer:
What makes a military force powerful today?
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Unit 1- Early Humans to Early Civilizations
Study from your notes, Vocabulary, Bell ringers, Quiz and
Student Learning Map
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Many Empires fought over Fertile Crescent
Flat plains exposed Assyria to invaders
Developed advanced military and weaponry
• Fierce warrior society
• War chariots, foot soldiers, cavalry
• Leather and metal armor
SOCIAL/POLITICAL
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System of roads
Local governors
report to central
authority
Forced conquered
people to pay taxes
ART/CULTURE
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Art: finely carved
sculptures
King Sennacherib
burned Babylon and
built Nineveh
(Assyria’s capital)
King Ashurbanipal
built ancient library20,000 clay tablets-Epic
of Gilgamesh
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Too many enemies, spread too thin
Medes and Chaldeans burned Nineveh
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Many clay tablets in library survived
Chaldeans made Babylon their capital
Nineveh under siege by the
Babylonians and Medes.
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Restored city of
Babylon
Hanging gardens
300 foot ziggurat
Astronomy and
astrology
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Two means by which Assyria acquired a large empire
Assyrian king who burned Babylon and ordered its residents
killed
Assyrian system of government management
Capital city of Assyrian culture, the largest city of its day
Assyrian king who established one of the ancient world’s largest
libraries
Assyrian practice that eventually contributed to the downfall of
their empire
A combined army of these two groups destroyed Assyria’s capital
city
Chaldean king who created terraced trees and shrubs for his wife’s
enjoyment
Capital city of Chaldean empire
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world
Seven-tiered building in Babylon used by Chaldean priests and
astronomers