1. By: Maximilian Ackermann H.
Mesopotamia
By: Maximilian Ackermann H.

2. Location
Mesopotamia was located in the Fertile Crescent, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

3. Rivers of Life and Death
Even though the rivers brought fish, water, and fertile soil…
The floodwaters sometimes swept away people, animals, crops, and houses.

4. The First Cities
As farming succeeded, communities began to build food surpluses.
In time, food surpluses encouraged the growth of cities.
Sumer was Mesopotamia’s first city.

5. Religion The main religion was polytheism.
The temples were called Ziggurats.

6. The Fall of Sumer The wealth of Sumer was its downfall.
Sumerian city-states fought each other for the land and the use of the river.
Sumer was conquered by the neighboring Akkad.

7. It’s ruler King Sargon, united the Sumerian kingdom and improved its government and military
But it fell to Babylonia, in the 1700 B.C.

8. Meopotamia’s Legacy Hammurabi’s code ( written set of laws)
Sumerian were the first to develop the art of writing. (Cuneiform)
Sumerian wrote in clay tablets because of the lack of paper.

9. The Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi created this empire in B.C. by conquering cities in Sumer.
Babylon was the capital city.

10. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Babylonia was the home of one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world.

11. Babylonian Fall Trade made Babylon rich.
But there wealth could not save them from invaders in 1500s B.C.

12. The Assyrian Empire
Thanks to there skilled warriors, Assyria had conquered a large empire.
It stretched from the Nile River to the Persian Gulf.

13. Assyria’s Contributions
War: Battering ram, slings, helmets and armor.
The capital city Nineveh, had a huge library that held thousand of clay tablets with writings from Sumer and Babylon

14. Assyria’s Fall
The Assyrians didn’t have much friends in their territory.
2 groups: the Medes and the Chaldeans joined together to defeat the Assyrian Empire in 612 B.C.

15. Babylonia Rises Again
King Nebuchadnezzar II rebuilt the city of Babylon.
Under the rule of the Chaldeans, there were advances in Math, Astronomy and raised bees.
The Babylonian Empire fell to the Persian in 539 B.C.

16. The Persian Empire
The Persian built the largest Empire that the Fertile Crescent have ever known.
Persian culture included Zoroastrianism( they only believed in 1 God).
They tolerated peoples with different religions.