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Bellringer. Please take out your outlines for your outline quiz! BJOTD: What kind of fruit studies all the time?. New Empires in the Middle East: Assyria and Persia!!!. Made by the non infamous: Alex Cherpes !. Assyrian Empire (850 BCE-612 BCE). Babylonia. Anatolia. Syria . Palestine.

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  1. Bellringer Please take out your outlines for your outline quiz! BJOTD: What kind of fruit studies all the time?

  2. New Empires in the Middle East: Assyria and Persia!!! Made by the non infamous: Alex Cherpes!

  3. Assyrian Empire (850 BCE-612 BCE) Babylonia Anatolia Syria Palestine Location: city-state in northern Mesopotamia

  4. Military Organization

  5. GOVERNMENT! Tribute: payment given to a stronger nation by a weaker nation Land was governed by: Assyrian officials or Assyrian-chosen leaders

  6. Defeat and Downfall Conquered by the Chaldean and Medes people in 612 BCE

  7. Nebuchadnezzar makes Babylon the new capital

  8. Persian Empire :DThe Persian Homeland • Location: Modern Day Iran • Great Farmland and rich in mineral resources • Examples: Copper, Lead, Gold, blue lapis

  9. Cyrus the Great Fertile Crescent Anatolia Iran

  10. Different from the Assyrians

  11. Cambyses

  12. Darius I Used the 10,000 immortals (bodyguard army) to take control after Darius

  13. Empire stretched for 2,500 square miles Greece

  14. Government Satrapies Satraps: reported directly to Darius

  15. Persian Achievements Royal Road: 1600 miles long and connected the entire empire Coined money—standard for entire empire

  16. Movie Questions What amenities could you find on the road? How long would it take you to get from Turkey to Iran on the road? Why was the road so important? What did it help to improve?

  17. Persian Religion • Zoroastrianism • Zoroaster: prophet (600 BCE) • Two armies fought over a person’s soul • Ahura Mazda: god of truth and light • Ahriman/AhuraMainyu: god of evil and darkness • “Judgment Day” at the end of one’s life • Paradise….or a fiery pit, depending on how you lived your life • Holy Book: Avesta

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