Mesopotamia Technologies
Used for counting in Mesopotamia which led to modern day calculators
Abacus
Assyrians were experts at
The first empire and people
Akkadians
What Phoenician translates to, also their most famous good
Purple Dye People
The two rivers made this agricultural area
Fertile Crescent
This invention made of iron made it easier to break ground
Ox-driven Plow
He was the leader of the Chaldeans
Nebuchadnezzar
Sargon the Great led this Empire
Akkadians
They were very skilled at this two things
Shipbuilding and trade
He ruled the Persian Empire at its largest
Darius I
Ships were built with rocks in the bottom to balance the load in stormy weather this was called
Ballast
The Chaldeans were cruel to their people but this made up for it
Beautiful gardens and temples
This empire like to burn, kill, take everything, had iron weapons, chariots, bows and arrows
Assyrians
One of their only weaknesses
Weak military
The long road built by the Persians that stretched over 1500 miles
Royal Road
A form of writing that was used to form the alphabet
Cuneiform
Two superhuman things the Gods could do according to the people of Mesopotamia
Floods, Famine, Disease,
These people were not really pleasant to each other but made up for it building pleasant things
Chaldeans
Their greatest export
Culture
Early Mesopotamia was known for its early tools made from Copper and Tin this time period was known as
The Bronze Age
An 8 foot tall statue had these on them, 282 to be exact
Laws and rules to live by
Two things Sargon did to unite his empire
treated conquered people with respect and allowed them to continue their customs and beliefs, standard weights and measures for everyone, one language,
The largest of all the early Mesopotamian empires, it included 2800 miles of land stretching from India to Eastern Europe
Persia
They used this to record transactions
22 letter alphabet
This capital city was decorated with jeweled statues and symbolized the Persian's great wealth
Persepolis