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Akkadians

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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AKKADIANS

  • The Akaddians lived in Northern Mesopotamia
  • The Akkaddians spoke a semitic language.
Photo by mharrsch
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BABYLON

  • The most favored king of Babylon was Hammurabi.
  • Law and order were maintained from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean then the Babylonian empire stretched.
Photo by -Reji
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CUNEIFORM

  • It was their earliest systems of writing.
Photo by listentoreason
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DIASPORA

  • In Mesopotamia they made a dike just incase they had a flood or if a tsunami came.
Photo by AnEyeForTexas
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EUPHRATES RIVER

  • One of the rivers that go through Mesopotamia.
  • The Euphrates River is the longest river in Western Asia it flows for 1,740 miles from its source in eastern turkey to the Persian gulf.
Photo by Arian Zwegers
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FERTILE CRESCENT

  • It got its name by the crescent shape land its on.
  • Some of the first cites on earth formed in the Fertile Crescent.
Photo by MSVG
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GILGAMESH

  • Gilgamesh is a demigod of super strength who builds the city walls of Uruk. In Mesopotamia mythology.
Photo by justinvandyke
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HAMMURABI

  • He has his own codes. He was the king of Babylon. His world included world peace so when I ruled he made everything peaceful.
Photo by The man with the golden cam
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IRAQ

  • It's located in Western Asia but it also expands to the northern end of the Zagros mountain.
Photo by Kuba Bożanowski
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JUDAH

  • Judah was the fourth son of Jason and Leah. Jaso n was the forebear of one of the tribes in Israel. This is part of the mythology.
Photo by andryn2006
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KUWAIT

  • The Kuwaitis speak the local dialect of Aribic with is an amalgam of Mesopotamia Arabic of the southern Euphrates branch,and Peninsular Arabic which is the variant most common on the Arabian Pininsula. Kuwaiti Arabic also includes many loan words form the Indian languages and from English.
Photo by radiant guy
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LYRE OF MESOPOTAMIA

  • The lyre is a video bySam Chegini about the reconstruction steps of the lyre of ur . The lyre of Mesopotamia was unveiled in December 2009 during and international congress.
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MESOPOTAMIA

  • Mesopotamia religion does not believe in the after life.
  • They're religion believed that they were servants of God.
  • Mesopotamia was made up of individual City-states controlled by different powers.
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NEO-ASSYRIAN

  • The Neo-Assyrians was an Iron Age Mesopotamia empire.
Photo by batigolix
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OSORENE

  • It is sometimes call it capital-city Edessa was a historical kingdom located in Upper Mesopotamia.
Photo by listentoreason
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POLYTHEISM

  • Polytheism means to believe in or worship mor than one gods.
Photo by profzucker
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QUIVER

  • A bronze quiver inscribed with the name of King Shalmaneser 3.
Photo by Travis S.
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ROMAN

  • Mesopotamia became a battle ground between the Romans and Parthians.
Photo by archer10 (Dennis) (56M Views)
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SYRIA

  • Located in the Middle East on the shore of Mediterranean Sea border from the north down west by Turkey,Iraq,Jordan,and Lebanon.
  • It's one of the oldest inhabited regions in the world with archeological finds.
Photo by paalia
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TIGRIS RIVER

  • The Tigris River is one of the rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
  • The Tigris River is 1,180 in length.
Photo by tommigodwin
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UTU

  • He uses shafts of sunlight to make his judgements. In Mesopotamia mythology.
Photo by VinothChandar
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VALUE

  • Value was a trading system.
Photo by c_ambler
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WAR

  • Mesopotamia was a battle field for some of the wars.
Photo by profzucker
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XTREME ART

  • Mesopotamian art was intended to serve as a way to glorify powerful rulers.
Photo by diffendale
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YEAR NAME

  • A year name is a list of names like kings.
Photo by g12_ralph
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ZIGGUART

  • A zigguart is an ancient Mesopotamia pyramid shaped tower with different layers that lead to different places.
Photo by harvest breeding

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