1. ANCIENT CIVILIZATION

2. Let’s travel !
Time machine on!
Switch on! Go lets!

3. AKKADIANS: FIRST EMPIRE BULDERS
Lord of the Four Quarters of the World
Akkadian
People who spoke a language related to Hebrew and Arabic.
2350 BCE
Sumer at war
I want to conquer the entire fertile crescent
Created the world’s first empire
Sargon
Empire brings together several people, nations, or formerly independent states under one control.

4. Southern of Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean Sea to the Iran.

5. King of the ancient city of UR
Sargon’s grandson R I P
Naram Sin
Ur-Nammu
King of the ancient city of UR
attack
Nomad invaded Mesopotamia

6. BABYLONIAN From the city of Babylon Known as Amorites Hammurabi
Military ruler
Code of Law
Marduk -God

7. Women had given the same stature as men.
Social Structure
nobility
artisans
merchants
Women had given the same stature as men.
Trade, have profession, priestesses
peasants
slave

8. Principle: “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth”
282 laws
Advanced and high legal procedures
Upper part: Hammurabi with Shamash, god of justice.
Content: trade, family labor, real estate, personal property
Code of Hammurabi

9. Invaders from Asia Minor (Turkey)
After 2 centuries
Babylon
Invaders from Asia Minor (Turkey)
Invaders from east

10. Lost military advantage
HITTITES
-from Asia Minor
-adapt Sumerian cuneiform
-experts in military strategy, skilful diplomacy and superior weapons.
Metalworkers – IRON
*IRON Age
Humane Legal System
Capital punishment-major crimes
Payment system
Premeditation
Lost military advantage

11. Assyrians ASUR- city state Northern portion of Mesopotamia
Disciplined army
Fiercest, cruellest, most aggressive and most warlike
“I piled them up, and like heaps of grain, I piled them up”
Day 1- San Vitores
Tortured and beheaded Babylonian prisoners, enslaved women and children.

12. Nineveh – symbol of pride and cruelty
Conquered territories and built roads for the troops
refused
Collected heavy taxes

13. - Built library with 22,000 clay tablets collection
Ashurbanipal
-cruel and harsh
- Built library with 22,000 clay tablets collection
Preserving invaluable records in the world’s first library

14. Chaldeans
captured
Joined with oppressed
Nebuchadnezzar
Hanging Garden

15. -12 constellations - zodiac Babylonian captivity of the Jews
Stargazers of Babylon
-astronomy
-12 constellations - zodiac
Babylonian captivity of the Jews
Jews and Jerusalem

17. Persians Cyrus the great king of Persia Military genius
Showed justice and fairness
Equal law
FREE
Day 1- 7Regis
DARIUS
CAMBYSES

18. Persian empire: south and eastern of Iran, west of the Indus river and south-eastern part of Europe, north of black sea and Caspian sea
Mightiest Empire
satrapy – provinces satraps- governors
Coinage- promote trade
Royal Road

19. Xerxes
Alexander the Great

20. Civilization of smaller states
PHOENICIANS
HEBREWS

21. Papyrus (Beritus and Bbylos) Wine, glass, ivory, and weapons
Wealthy city-states
Tyre
Sidon
Purple dye product
Papyrus (Beritus and Bbylos)
Wine, glass, ivory, and weapons
Skilled shipbuilders and seafarers
Greatest traders of antiquity/Carrier of Civilization

22. Phoenicia’s Legacy

23. Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Canaan
Ancient home of the Hebrews
CONTRIBUTION
Jewish Code of Law
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Monotheism

24. Did you enjoy the journey?

25. Things I will never forget…..
My journey
Things I discovered…..
Things I learned…..
Things I was amazed
Things I was afraid……
Things I will never forget…..
Things I had fun….