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Many people
BABYLON lived in Mesopotamia
WAS ORIGINALLY in FROM
A CITY STATE. independent
1800 ITS
city states.
RULERS The region
CREATED belonged
A GREAT toTHAT
EMPIRE different empires
STRETCHED
overMEDITERRANEAN
ACROSS TO THE a long period ofCOAST
time AND EGYPT
MESOPOTAMIA
SS YR IA CITY STATES AND EMPIRES
A
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IN 539 BC THE PERSIANS CONQUERED MESOPOTAMIA AND IT
BECAME PART OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE. MESOPOTAMIA WAS
LATER CONQUERED BY THE GREEKS (ALEXANDER THE GREAT)
SOCIETY AND POLITICAL
SYSTEMS
r a c y to
c
The empires when theyrm theocreated-
were
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their kings that se t
held ty p e and d b
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MESOPOTAMIA
HIERARCHICAL SOCIETY
KING
ARISTOCRACY
THE RULING
PRIESTS
ELITE
HIGH OFFIC IALS
SCRIBES INTERMEDIA
TE GROUPS
MERCHANTS
FARMERS LOWER
LEVEL
ARTISANS
SLAVES BASE
MESOPOTAMIA
CO M PL ET E HIERARCHICAL SOCIETY
NOW, GRAM OF
IA
TH E D H E
T
P O TA MIAN KING
MESO ETY BY
SOCI E LF
YO U R S
THE RULING
ELITE
INTERMEDIA
TE GROUPS
LOWER
LEVEL
BASE
T RY TO WHERE IS THE MILITARY AND RELIGIOUS
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S O ME OF LEADER?
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IDENT IFFERENT IS HE THE SAME SIZE AS THE OTHER
TH E D IN THE FIGURES?
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CLASS ARD OF FIND WARRIORS AND CHARIOTS IN THIS
STAND R SCENE
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FIND THE DEFEATED ENEMIES
THE STANDARD
OF UR
THE MILITARY
AND RELIGIOUS
THE
LEADER
NOBLEMEN
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Mesopotamia,
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explicacin de la
cuneiforme.
escritura cuneiforme.
APPEARED IN MESOPOTAMIA AFTER 4000 BC. SMALL PICTURES
(3:06)
REPRESENTED
By Hernn PrezOBJECTES
del OR ANIMALS AND EVOLVED INTO . AT
Hammurabi's code of law
Pulgar
FIRST, WRITING WAS USED FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, BUT
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& the Israelite connection
TU AFTER IT RECORDED POEMS AND STORIES
E R A
(2:54)
LITEByEAshraf Ezrat
Hammurabis Code
LONG POEMS LIKE THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH WERE WRITTEN (2000
(2,55)
BC). THE Cougarcast
By CCMS WAS THE WORLDS FIRST WRITTEN LAW (1750 BC)
MESOPOTAMIA: CULTURE
SCULPTUR
E
STATUES RELIEFS
CARVED RELIEFS
STATUES SHOWED KINGS, SHOWED HUNTING
GODS AND PRIESTS SCENES OR MILITARY
VICTORIES