Empires/civilizations Flashcards
Sumer years
3000BCE-2340BCE
Akkad years
2340BCE-1800BCE
Babylonian years
1792BCE-900BCE
Assyrian years
900BCE-612BCE
Chaldean years
612BCE-539BCE
Location for all
Mesopotamia
Sumer cities
Ur
Uruk
Eridu
Akkad cities
Akkad
Babylon cities
Babylon
Assyrian cities
Nivehe
Babylon
Chaldean cities
Babylon
Sumer contributions
Writing system, wheel, sailboat, plow
Babylonian contributions
Law code, crimes business, farming, marriage, family, listed a punishment for each crime, punishment match seriousness of the crime, protected the less powerful, and influenced the law codes for Greece and Rome
Assyrian contributions
Iron weapons, one of the worlds first libraries, wrote and collected stories
Chaldean contributions
Babylon’s hanging garden, map to the stars, planets, phases of the moon, sundial to measure time, seven day week