PURE MESOPATAMIA= PURE POWER
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The Sumerians were
located in southern
Mesopotamia
Major city Suman
Currently this area is
the country of Iraq
Iraq was ruled by
dictatorship until the
USA came in and ended
that rule and now the
country is recovering
from war and still is in
war with the USA
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Major city-states
Kish (Tell al-Uhaimer)
Uruk
Ur (al-Mukayyar)
Sippar
Akshak
Larak
Nippur
Adab
Umma
Lagash (Tello)
Bad-Tabira
Larsa
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4000 Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia
3800 Sumerians supplant Ubaidians in Mesopotamia
and start cities
2800 Kish, the dominant city, challenged by Lagash;
Semites dominate Kish
2700 Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, rules the city of Uruk
2340 Sargon (a Sumerian in the city of Kish)
overthrows the Sumerian king of Nippur;
Sargon's new kingdom is called Akkad;
Sargon extends his kingdom to Syria
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2320 Sargon conquers Sumer
2230 Akkadian dynasty ends
2150 Nomadic Gutians overruns Akkadians and Sumer,
but Sumer revives
2130 Sumer regains independence from Akkadian rule
2000 Hittites migrate to Asia Minor
1950 Elamites from Zagros attack Sumer and overrun
the Syrian Amorites;
Amorites go to Babylon to create colonies with Ashur
as center of a kingdom that will be called Assyria
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1753 Ammorite King Hammurabi conquers all of Sumer;
Hammurabi rules to 1750;
His empire lasts until 1600, when the Kassites conquer most of
Mesopotamia
1800 Kassites defeat the Babylonians
1593 Hittites sack Babylon and end Hammurabi's dynasty
1365 Ashur the Great, King of Assyria marries his daughter to a
Babylonian
1300 The Assyrians control all of Mesopotamia
1200 Hittites' capital Hattusas is wiped out (plague); Phrygians
move in
1050 Cosmopolitan area, with tolerance for diverse ethnicity
1000 Assyrian Empire.
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Polytheistic- belief in many gods
Temple priests washed gods statues before and
after every meal is offered
They believed if you angered the gods they would
punish
But you would be rewarded by the gods if you
served them well
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The ziggurats were the
site for religious
activities
Ziggurat- a temple
made of terraces,
linked by stair cases
Sumerians believed
that the Gods
descended to Earth
using the ziggurat as a
stairway
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Sumerians believed in
the afterlife
So they buried their
dead with their
possessions because
they would be able to
use them in the
afterlife
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Ruler of Akkadia who conquered Sumer around
2300 B.C.
He united the Sumerian city-states , improved
Sumer’s economy, and its military
It stayed this way for 100 years until dissolving back
into its city-states.
It lost its major power and fell to northern rival,
Babylonia in the 1700 B.C.
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The Sumerians were a polytheistic civilization
that believed in honoring their gods or be
punished by them
They were more successful with the citystates formed together as one instead of all
on their own fighting against each other for
power.
The reason the fell to Babylonia is because
they could not form a army to work together
while they were city-states
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