What happened to the Akkadian Empire?

What Empires came after Akkad?

What happened to Sumer?

1) SACK OF BABYLON

a. Babylon was powerful for hundreds of yearsb. Mershilis I of the Hittites sacked itc. The Babylonians rebuilt the city, but it was less powerful

2) ASSYRIA

a. Religioni. The Assyrians believed that

their chief god Ashur wanted them to spread his order and influence to the entire world

ii. Ashur was only worshipped in Assyria

iii. So Assyria was good, everywhere else was bad and had to be attacked

b. Military technologyi. Siege towersii. Horsesiii. They built roads to

get places faster

To see the king, you had to make an appointment

Then you had to walk through these:

iii. Then you had to walk down a hallway full of pictures like this:

iv. Then you got to meet the king

d. Policy of Exile:i. Exile: forced removal from one’s own homelandii. When the Assyrians conquered a country, they would sometimes send the people that lived there someplace else

3) ASSYRIA STARTS EXPANDING

a. First: They attacked their neighbors the Mitanni

b. King Tiglath-Pileser:

i. Conquered Babylon

ii. Conquered the Urartu

iii. Beat up the Medes

iv. Conquered Syriav. Conquered

Phoenicia

vi. Attacked Israela. There were two Hebrew kingdoms at the time

vii. Conquered thema. He exiled them to other parts of the Assyrian Empire

viii. Conquered the Philistines

x. Made Judah pay tribute1) Tribute: money paid to a conquering ruler for protection

d. King Sennacherib:i. Went to war with Judah

a. Attacked Jerusalem b. His army got sick and died

ii. Babylon rebelled i. He destroyed Babylon

iii. He was killed

e. King Ashurbanipal

i. Babylon rebelled again

a. He defeated themii. Conquest of Elamiii. Conquest of Egypt

4) THE MEDES RETURNED

a. The Medes attacked the Assyrian homeland

b. The Babylonians came to helpc. The Assyrian army was spread out all

overi. To keep people from rebelling

d. The Assyrians lost

5) WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ASSYRIANS?

a. They were killedi. The Assyrian cities

were destroyedii. Only farming

villages were left

b. Assyria was never powerful again