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Questions to Consider

Questions to Consider. What makes a civilization “great” ? What makes a “great” leader? What shapes a civilization? Why do civilizations fall?. We've been driving around From one end of this town to the other and back But no one's ever seen us (No one's ever seen us)

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Questions to Consider

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  1. Questions to Consider • What makes a civilization “great” ? • What makes a “great” leader? • What shapes a civilization? • Why do civilizations fall?

  2. We've been driving around From one end of this town to the other and back But no one's ever seen us (No one's ever seen us) Driving our Econoline van (And no one's ever heard of our band) And no one's ever heard of our band (chorus) We're the Mesopotamians Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh Then they wouldn't understand a word we say So we'll scratch it all down into the clay Half believing there will sometime come a day Someone gives a damn Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand (chorus) The Mesopotamish sun is beating down And making cracks in the ground But there's nowhere else to stand In Mesopotamia (No one's ever seen us) The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one's ever heard of our band) The land where we invisibly rule (chorus) This is my last stick of gum I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some Except for Ashurbanipal, who says my haircut makes me look like a Mohenjo-Daroan Hey, Ashurbanipal (Chorus) "Hey, man, I thought that you were dead I thought you crashed your car" "No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar For the Mesopotamians" (chorus)

  3. The Fertile Crescent

  4. Mesopotamian Timeline (B.C.E) • 3000 – Earliest Sumerian City-States • 2600 – Gilgamesh rules Uruk • 2350 – Sargon of Akkad creates the first Empire • 2100 – Ur becomes the dominant city-state • 2000 – Ur is destroyed by the Elamites. End of Sumerian/Akkadian Civilization • 1800 – Babylon becomes a dominant power • 1750 – Hammurabi rules Babylonian Empire • 1400 – Babylonian Empire collapses, Assyria on the rise • 800 – Assyria rules all of Mesopotamia • 668-627 – Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian ruler, enriches the empire both culturally and geographically • 612 – Fall of Nineveh, Assyria’s capital • 604-539 – Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian) Empire • 539 – Babylon captured by Cyrus the Great of Persia

  5. City-States of Sumer

  6. Sargon’s Empire

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