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The Ending time
- Assyrian Empire
Period
- New Babylon
- Ending…
- Think
& Quest
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| Assyrian
Empire Period (
1960-609 B.C ) |
While the Babylonian Empire was situated in
southern Mesopotamia, the Assyrian Empire was
centered on the northern Euphrates. The Assyrians
inherited the culture of the Sumerians and the
Akkadians, and adopted the Akkadian cuneiform
writing system as the Babylonians had.Assyrian history is
divided into the Old Assyrian Empire (
1,960-1,400 B.C. ), Middle Assyrian Empire(
1,400-800 B.C ),and New Assyrian Empire( 884-612
B.C ). In the Middle and New Assyrian
Empire,Assyrian was very powerful. Assyrain's
influence eventually reached Egypt, marking the
the Assyrain Empire bigger than ever. Then, in
612 B.C.,the Medes allied with the Chaldaeans,
destroying Nineveh.
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| New
Babylon ( 626-539 B.C ) |
[ Discovery of New Babylon ]The New Babylon Empire
was founded by the Chaldaeans. In 626 B.C., they
drove the Assyrain out of Babylon and created the
Chaldaeans Empire or New Babylon Empire.
[
Nebuchadnezzar II ] ( 605-562 B.C )
Nebuchadnezzar
II was the greatest ruler of the New Babylonian
Empire. In 586B.C., he succeeded in capturing
Jerusalem and destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of
Judah. He relocated the people living in Judah to
Babylon, making them slaves. In Hebrew history
,this period is known as the Babylon Captivity.
Nebuchadnezzar II continuously engaged in
warfare, and in the meantime he rebuilt Babylon.
Babylon, measuring 850 hectares, was the biggest
city in the empire of Nebuchadnezzar.
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| Ending… |
Under the rule of Persia, Babylon enjoyed
tremendous prosperity and became the capital of
Babylonia; but in 482 B.C, the Babylonian rose
against the Persians, and Babylon, with the
intention of marking Babylon the capital of his
empire. He restored many ruined temples, and died
in Nebuchadnezzar's palace in Babylon in 323 B.C.After the death of
Alexander the Great ,the Seleucids ( 312-64 B.C )
ruled Mesopotamia and Babylon. Antiochus I (
280-261 B.C ) set up his new capital, Seleucia
,near the Tigris. With its Greek-style
architecture, Seleucia replaced Babylon as the
most important city in Mesopotamia in the later
years of Seleucus' reign. Persian and Greek
cultures became dominant in Mesopotamia, and
Mesopotamia culture declined, this time for good.
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| Think & Quest |
- Did Mesopotamia
really disappear from our world? Whay do
you think?
- What have the the
people in Greek done for saving the
Mesopotamia culture?
( Please search reference
by yourself )
Why did they do
it?
- When a culture
began blending with other cultures...Do
you think it is good? Why?
- How and why can
one culture blend with other cultures?
Could you make any examples?
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