1. PURE MESOPATAMIA= PURE POWER

2.  The Sumerians were located in southern Mesopotamia  Major city Suman  Currently this area is the country of Iraq  Iraq was ruled by dictatorship until the USA came in and ended that rule and now the country is recovering from war and still is in war with the USA

4.  Major city-states  Kish (Tell al-Uhaimer)  Uruk Uruk  Ur (al-Mukayyar)  Sippar  Akshak  Larak  Nippur  Adab  Umma  Lagash (Tello)  Bad-Tabira  Larsa

5.  4000 Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia  3800 Sumerians supplant Ubaidians in Mesopotamia and start cities  2800 Kish, the dominant city, challenged by Lagash; Semites dominate Kish  2700 Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, rules the city of Uruk  2340 Sargon (a Sumerian in the city of Kish) overthrows the Sumerian king of Nippur; Sargon's new kingdom is called Akkad; Sargon extends his kingdom to Syria

6.  2320 Sargon conquers Sumer  2230 Akkadian dynasty ends  2150 Nomadic Gutians overruns Akkadians and Sumer, but Sumer revives  2130 Sumer regains independence from Akkadian rule  2000 Hittites migrate to Asia Minor  1950 Elamites from Zagros attack Sumer and overrun the Syrian Amorites; Amorites go to Babylon to create colonies with Ashur as center of a kingdom that will be called Assyria

7.  1753 Ammorite King Hammurabi conquers all of Sumer; Hammurabi rules to 1750; His empire lasts until 1600, when the Kassites conquer most of Mesopotamia  1800 Kassites defeat the Babylonians  1593 Hittites sack Babylon and end Hammurabi's dynasty  1365 Ashur the Great, King of Assyria marries his daughter to a Babylonian  1300 The Assyrians control all of Mesopotamia  1200 Hittites' capital Hattusas is wiped out (plague); Phrygians move in  1050 Cosmopolitan area, with tolerance for diverse ethnicity  1000 Assyrian Empire.

8.  Polytheistic- belief in many gods  Temple priests washed gods statues before and after every meal is offered  They believed if you angered the gods they would punish  But you would be rewarded by the gods if you served them well

9.  The ziggurats were the site for religious activities  Ziggurat- a temple made of terraces, linked by stair cases  Sumerians believed that the Gods descended to Earth using the ziggurat as a stairway

10.  Sumerians believed in the afterlife  So they buried their dead with their possessions because they would be able to use them in the afterlife

11.  Ruler of Akkadia who conquered Sumer around 2300 B.C.  He united the Sumerian city-states, improved Sumer’s economy, and its military  It stayed this way for 100 years until dissolving back into its city-states.  It lost its major power and fell to northern rival, Babylonia in the 1700 B.C.

12.  The Sumerians were a polytheistic civilization that believed in honoring their gods or be punished by them  They were more successful with the city- states formed together as one instead of all on their own fighting against each other for power.  The reason the fell to Babylonia is because they could not form a army to work together while they were city-states

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