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what happened to sumerian civilization
- suffered from droughts
-increased internal conflict
- people from turkey and Iran began to attack
know this about Hammurabi one of the babylonian kings
- Hammurabi added to the land of babylon when he became king and strengthened the city by building walls with tunnels under the walls for water
- Hammurabi claimed he received his power from the cheif God of the Babylonians marduk
-During hammurabi's rule his army took asyria and virtually all of mesopotamia
- babylon dominated mesopotamia for nearly 1,000 years
- Hammurabi ruled for 42 years
Who were the two famous Hittites in history
- Ephron - sold Abraham a cave to bury Sarah his wife
- Uriah - soldier in David's army that david had killed in order that he could get to his wife bathseeba
Nabopolazzar
Naabopolazzar rulers for twenty years but it took him ten to get rid of the assyrians
name the three significant things about the chaldeans
astrology, astronomy, and magic
where was Babylonian civilization located
located in central iraq
what was the code of hammurabi
the code of hammurabi is the oldest code of written laws found completed in archeological digs it was made up of 282 laws based on LEX TALONAIS or "an eye for an eye" it was found on a seven foot four stone slap or steel
who made the first peace treaty in history
the Hittites and Egyptians made the first peace treat in the world following the battle of kalesh
nebuchadnezzar II
- great conqueror who took syria and palestine
-destroyed the temple of Jerusalem and started the captivity of the Jews that lasted 70 years
what were the two period of babylonian civilization
the old Babylonian period and the neobabylonian period also know as the Chaldean period
who was marduk
marduk was the god of the sun, justice, and divination
who were the hittites descendants of
the hittites were descendants of ham through his son caanan
why did Nebuchadnezzar build the hanging gardens of babylon
becusae he built them for his wife a mede who was homesick for the mountians
know this about the old babylonian period
- comes after the end of sumerian power an the brief rule of the akkadians
- the early rulers of babylon were the amorites a nomadic tribe located in what we now know as northern syria
who did the babylonians fall to during the old Babylonian empire
the hittites from around the black sea
Know this about the intermediate period of babylon
- there was a period of 970 years between the old Babylonian period and the neobabylonian period
- during this time a group of people called the Assyrians took over mesopotamia
Belshezzar
last ruler of the neobabylonian empire, he saw a mysterious writing on the wall of his palace that called for the end of Jewish captivity then Cyrus the great conquered the Babylonians for persia
where were the amorites from
the bible refers to the amorites as inhabitants of Canaan which was centered in what we know today as palestine and Israel, but also included parts of modern lebenon, Western Jordan, and southwest syria
the Hittites spoke the oldest known language - Nesili
what was the neobabylonian period also known as
the neo babylonan period was also known as the chaldean period