Ancient Mesopotamia & Its Conquerors- Regular

The Babylonians developed it as an alphabetic system

The Akkadians created it for mathematical calculations

The Sumerians developed it from pictographs

The Assyrians invented it for military communications

Merchants and artisans

Military commanders

Priests and rulers

Scribes and teachers

Creating the first professional army

Developing the cuneiform writing system

Constructing the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Establishing the first mathematical system

It marked the beginning of empire building and territorial expansion.

It led to the decline of agriculture.

It caused the end of all religious practices.

It resulted in the loss of written language.

He unified all of Sumer for the first time

He invented writing

He built the Hanging Gardens

He created the first code of law

Amorites took power of Sumer

Capital moved from Ur to Babylon

Sumerians conquered Egypt

Babylonian Empire kept Sumerian practices

Creating a code of law for all people

Inventing the wheel

Building the first city

Conquering Egypt

Nineveh

Babylon

Memphis

Jerusalem

Archers

Ladders

Tunnels

Chariots

Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius I

Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib

Ashurbanipal and Hammurabi

Ramses II and Tutankhamun

Hammurabi

Nebuchadnezzar

Sargon of Akkad

Cyrus the Great