EMPIRES
TIME
PERIOD
LEADER
Hammurabi
BABYLONIAN
1787B.C.
1500B.C.
CULTURE / DAILY
LIFE
Babylonian
capital city
Traded w/people
from traveling
caravans at local
bazars
Location made
trade easy
Wealthy from
their agriculture
& trade
Became weak
and was
conquered
CONTRIBUTIONS/ADVANCES CONQUERED
BY
Built roads
Assyrians
EMPIRES
ASSYRIANS
TIME
PERIOD
1365B.C.
612 B.C.
LEADER
CULTURE / DAILY
LIFE
Nineveh capital
city
Clever at war:
skilled warriors
CONTRIBUTIONS/ADVANCES CONQUERED
BY
Invented:
Battering ram
Sling
Protected soldiers with
helmets & armor
Open land made Libraries with clay tablets
it easy to invade with writings from Sumer
& Babylon
Large empire:
from Nile River – Copper & iron weapons
Persian gulf
Later iron
Other places
feared their
charioteers
Medes &
Chaldeans
who joined
together to
defeat
them.
EMPIRES
NEW
BABYLONIAN
TIME
PERIOD
LEADER
King
612B.BC. Nebuchadnezzar
of the
539B.C. Chaldeans
CULTURE / DAILY
LIFE
Controlled
ENTIRE Fertile
Crescent
Open to attack
CONTRIBUTIONS/ADVANCES CONQUERED
BY
Built upon the earlier
Babylonians knowledge
of math
Astronomers charted the
stars
King
Nebuchadnezzar:
rebuilt city
Measure the length of a
year
Put up massive
walls for
Farmers “flies that
protection
collect honey”
(honey bees)
Huge palace
Planted Gardens
of Babylon for
his wife.
Center of
learning &
science
Persians
EMPIRES
TIME
PERIOD
LEADER
Cyrus the Great
PERSIAN
539B.C.
331B.C.
CULTURE / DAILY
LIFE
CONTRIBUTIONS/ADVANCES CONQUERED
BY
Current day IRAN Supported & used the
Alexander
Babylonian math &
the Great
Built the HUGEST science
EMPIRE:
(Western Greece Connected existing roads
to India)
which allowed trade with
civilizations farther away
Religon:
Zoroastrianism Developed
Originally
BUREAUCRACY
worshiped only In government offices
1 god
Tolerated people
from civilizations
they conquered.
Freed the Jews
who had been
held by Babylon