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Chapter 25section 4
Asia: Shaped By History
SOUTHWEST ASIApg.476
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Asia: Shaped By History
SOUTHWEST ASIApg.476
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SOUTHWEST ASIASetting the Scene
pg.476
“An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
“If the robber is not caught, the man who has been robbed shall formally declare whatever he has lost… and the city and the mayor… shall replace whatever he has lost for him.”
Written in Cuneiform Writing
Hammurabi’s Code
This stele or carving is now in the Louvre
Museum in Paris, France.
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Setting the Scenepg.476
A priest (sitting) is proclaiming Hammurabi as
royalty (king)
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SOUTHWEST ASIASetting the Scene
pg.476
Some of Hammurabi’s Codes
from the stele
There were originally 282 laws
or codes
Written in the ancient writing of Mesopotamia called Cuneiform
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SOUTHWEST ASIAMESOPOTAMIA
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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SOUTHWEST ASIAMESOPOTAMIA
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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SOUTHWEST ASIAMESOPOTAMIA
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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SOUTHWEST ASIAMESOPOTAMIA
The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon
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SOUTHWEST ASIAMESOPOTAMIA
The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon
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The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon
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The Ishtar Gate in Bayblon
A piece of the actual gate is in Detroit at the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts)
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MESOPOTAMIA
Mesopotamia and the “fertile crescent”
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MESOPOTAMIA
Mesopotamia and the “fertile crescent”
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MESOPOTAMIA
Mesopotamia and the “fertile crescent”
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MESOPOTAMIA
VIDEO BREAK:
Mesopotamia1 min 2 sec
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MESOPOTAMIA
Summarians
Assyrians Babylonians
Way later in history the Persians also ruled this area
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MESOPOTAMIA
Euphrates River (Iraq)
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MESOPOTAMIA
Tigris River (Iraq)
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MESOPOTAMIA
VIDEO BREAK:
The Ancient Middle East5 min 10 sec
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SOUTHWEST ASIAPolitcal Boundaries Intensify
Conflicts and Challenges
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
All three religions
developed in the same area… the Middle East
and consider some of the
same land as holy land.
1000 BCE
1st Century CE
600 CE
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SOUTHWEST ASIAPolitical Boundaries Intensify
Conflicts and Challenges
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SOUTHWEST ASIA
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Palestine Flag Israel Flag
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SOUTHWEST ASIAWars with Iraq
Operation Desert Storm - 1st Persian Gulf War (1991)
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SOUTHWEST ASIAWars with Iraq
Saddam Hussein
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SOUTHWEST ASIAWars with Iraq
Operation Desert Storm - 1st Persian Gulf War (1991)
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SOUTHWEST ASIAWars with Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom - 2nd Persian Gulf War (2003)
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SOUTHWEST ASIAWars with Iraq
The Capture of Saddam Hussein
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