1. Empires

2. Terms--Empires Tribute System Hittites (1450 – 1200 BC)
Hattusha—”Hittite City”
“Catastrophe” (c BC)
“Sea People” (1250 – 1150 BC)
Phoenicians
Carthage
Assyrian Empire (c. 722 – 612 BC)
Ashurbanipal
Ninevah
Neo-Babylonians (c. 610 BC)
Nebuchadnezzar
Persians
Cyrus (the Great) (r. 560 – 530 BC)
Satraps
Zoroastrianism
Zoraster
Ahura Mazda

3. The Sea People

4. The Hittites

5. The Hittites

6. The Hittites

7. The Hittites—Ushered in the Iron Age

8. Hattusha

9. Hattusha

10. Hattusha—”Lion’s Gate”

11. The Hittite Empire & Egypt

12. The Phoenicians

13. The Phoenicians
Greatest Sea Traders of the Ancient World

14. The Phoenicians

15. The Phoenician Alphabet

16. The Assyrian Empire

17. The Assyrian Empire

18. The Assyrian Empire

19. The Assyrian Army

20. The Assyrian Army

21. Ashurbanipal

22. Ashurbanipal

23. Ashurbanipal

24. Royal Library at Ninevah

25. Assyrian Propaganda

26. Assyrian Propaganda

27. Babylonian Empire

28. Nebuchadnezzar

29. Hanging Gardens of Babylon

30. Hanging Gardens of Babylon

31. The Persian Empire

32. Cyrus the Great

33. The Persians

34. Zoraster & Ahura Mazda