1. Lesson 3: The New Babylonian Empire (page 110)
Chapter 3
Lesson 3: The New Babylonian Empire (page 110)

2. What it might have looked like…

3. What it might have looked like…

4. What it might have looked like…

6. New Babylonian empire
When Assyrians fell, Babylon again b/c center of civilization in Meso.
Called Neo-Babylonian Empire
(“neo” = “new”)

7. Nebuchadnezzar
One of N.B.’s best known kings.
Ruled for 44 yrs.
Known for many buildings

8. Nebuchadnezzar
Palace
Temples
Ziggurat later known as Tower of Babel

9. Tower of Babel

10. Nebuchadnezzar
Also believed to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Today, known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world.

11. Hanging Gardens of Babylon

12. Sidebar – the seven wonders
Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Status of Zeus at Olympia
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria

13. Sidebar – the seven wonders
Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria

14. Nebuchadnezzar
After Neb., several rulers / short time each
Nabonidus (from SE Turkey) gained control / kept N.B. strong
Finally, N.B. surrendered to Persia

15. EARLY CITIES/CITY-STATES LATER MESOPOTAMIAN EMPIRES
TIME LINE
9000–4000 YEARS AGO
5000–3000 YEARS AGO
YEARS AGO
EARLY CITIES/CITY-STATES
CITY-STATES/
CIVILIZATIONS
LATER MESOPOTAMIAN EMPIRES
CHAPTER 3
LESSONS 1&2
CATAL HUYUK
CHAPTER 2
LESSON 3
CHAPTER 3
LESSON 3
AKKAD
BABYLON
JERICHO
SUMER
ASSUR UR
NEW BABYLON

16. The Assyrian Empire forms 612 BC The Medes conquer Assyrians 605 BC
TIME LINE
1000 BC
750 BC
500 BC
About 700 BC
The Assyrian Empire forms
612 BC
The Medes conquer Assyrians
605 BC
Nebuchadnezzar’s rule begins

17. fin