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The Assyrians

The Assyrians

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History, Social Studies, Geography

5th - 6th Grade

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Edward Rivera

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The Assyrians

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The Fall of the Babylonian Empire

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Babylon Sacked

  • After Hammurabi, later rulers slowly lost sections of the empire

  • The empire faced attacks from the people known as the Hittites

  • Babylon (the capitol of the empire) was eventual sacked by the Hittites

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The Rise of the Assyrians

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The Assyrian Empire over Time

  • The Assyrian empire is split into 2 main sections in time

  • The Old Assyrian Empire

  • The Neo-Assyrian Empire

  • A mysterious event caused the Old Assyrian Empire to fall apart

  • The Assyrians returned better then ever a few centuries later

  • The empire crumbled and their capitol was destroyed in 609 B.C.

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Assyria's Contributions

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Military

  • Assyrians created new machines of war

  • Used iron weapons, superior to bronze

  • Used military strategies like the siege

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Culture

  • King Ashurbanipal collected cuneiform tablets in a massive library. Over 20,000!

  • They created an extensive system of government officials to rule the empire

  • They built grand palaces depicting their military conquests

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