1. First Thing: How did Sargon justify his kingship
First Thing: How did Sargon justify his kingship? Write it on the back of your story!

2. Usurper Stories How did Sargon justify his story?
What biblical story does this remind you of? Why might that be?
Let’s hear your stories!
How do you all justify being king?

3. Sargon Establishes an empire Empire= Rules 2234-2279 BCE
Akkad = capital
Ziggurat to Ishtar and Zababa
Daughter becomes high priestess of Ur

4. These ancient people are so crazy.
Akkad II
These ancient people are so crazy.

5. Rimush and Manishtushu
Keep fighting
Rimush dies after only eight years!

6. Naram-sin Calls himself a god
(others are gods, but not until they die)

7. Crazy Time. Four kings in three years Disappears by 2100 BC
Not another empire for 400 years

8. QUIZ TOMORROW ON SUMER AND AKKAD

9. What have we talked about?

10. (Terrible pun that you’ll understand by the time we’re done)
#30 -- Notes Babylon
Babylon rules.
(Terrible pun that you’ll understand by the time we’re done)

11. Amorites
400 years after the fall of Akkad, a new group of people enter Mesopotamia
Found many city-states, including Babylon
King = Hammurabi  builds an empire

12. Major Achievements Mathematics Calendar Transportation Gilgamesh
Multiplication
Division
Square roots
Base-60
Calendar
Transportation
Boats
Carts
Gilgamesh

13. No rules. The normal rules of the classroom do not apply.
There are only two rules:
Nobody and nothing can sustain physical or emotional injury.
When I turn off the lights, everybody will IMMEDIATELY become silent and will return to their seat and behave even better than normal.

14. Debrief What happened when there was no rules? Why?
Why do we need rules?
Do rules need to have punishments?
What are the five most important rules?

15. Small Groups for Today Only!
Jeremy
Gavin
Dani
Emma
Jed
Seth
Maddie
Ethan
Katie
Lincoln
Jake
Korrie
Katelyn
Ken
Isiah
Kaleigh
Oriana
Dustin A B C D E F

16. First Thing Get organized (3 min) Show me your updated ToC.
Read over your paragraphs, then turn them in.
Take the papers out of your folder and put them in your binder or folder in on organized way.
You should have everything from 0-33.
Make sure your Table of Contents is updated.
Ken, Lincoln, Dani, Emma, Ethan, Katelyn, Katie, and Seth: you still need a notebook check.
Show me your updated ToC.
Take out your copy of Hammurabi’s code and circle the most fair law and box the most unfair law.

17. Hammurabi’s Code: Fair and Unfair
Discuss with your group your choice for “Most Fair” and “Most Unfair.” Why did you pick the ones that you did?
Your group must come to consensus (total agreement) about which two laws are the most fair and most unfair. Send one person up to write these on the board.
While you wait: Did you think that Hammurabi’s Code was more fair or unfair overall? Why?

18. Hammurabi’s Code: Wrapping Up
How would you describe Hammurabi’s approach to rules and punishment? Discuss these as a group and add these to #30.
Regardless of whether this is fair or unfair, Hammurabi’s code was one of the first written set of laws in the world, if not the first. Why does writing down laws make them more fair?

19. The end of Babylon  Life after death is gloomy, terrible existence
1595 BCE: The Hittites conquer
=a dark age

20. Assyria (#34)
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again!

21. More Geography!

22. Attempts and Success Tried since 1350 BCE to make an empire
Expand in the 12th century BCE
8th century BCE  SUCCESS! An empire
671 BCE: Domination  control the entire Fertile Crescent and Egypt

23. Why are the Assyrians so powerful?

24. Why are the Assyrians so powerful?
1000 years of war
Advanced weapons – chariots, cavalry, and siege weapons
Terrorism
Burn crops and trees
Smashed dams
Loot cities
Burn men and women alive

25. Why are the Assyrians so powerful?
Forced people to move somewhere else in the Empire
Divide land into province with a governor
Controls military, courts, and money
Collect taxes
Raise armies
What’s the problem with empires?

26. The End. Again. Too many wars Need mercenaries
Conquered people eventually revolt

27. Exit Ticket On a scrap of paper, please answer this question:
How were the Assyrians able to overcome the problems of keeping an empire?

28. Chaldeans and the New Babylonian Empire (#35)
More great names!
These are not Hammurabi’s people.

29. New Babylon
604 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar makes Babylon a world power (again)
THIS IS NEW BABYLON -- a completely different place than Hammurabi’s Babylon.

30. Nebuchadnezzar Destroys temple at Jerusalem Stands up to Egypt
THIS IS NEW BABYLON -- a completely different place than Hammurabi’s Babylon.

31. Nebuchadnezzar Construction city – why?
THIS IS NEW BABYLON -- a completely different place than Hammurabi’s Babylon.

32. Nebuchadnezzar: Hanging Gardens
THIS IS NEW BABYLON -- a completely different place than Hammurabi’s Babylon.

33. The End  again. Nebuchadnezzar dies in 562 BCE Priests vs. king
Priests open gates to Persian invaders in 539 BCE
End of Mesopotamia- based empires for a while

34. Quiz Prep Time “Stump Your Classmates” A “Who…” question
A “What” question
A “Where” question
A “When” question
Two “Why” questions
Two “How” questions
One double-hard question
One softball question