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Empire Building

Empire Building. Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians Struggle for a Legacy. Empire: when one ruler controls several peoples, nations, or independent states. -Benefits -Challenges -Often try to show glory through architecture. Pyramids of Giza. Babylonian Empire. Hammurabi’s Code Pillar.

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Empire Building

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  1. Empire Building Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians Struggle for a Legacy

  2. Empire: when one ruler controls several peoples, nations, or independent states -Benefits -Challenges -Often try to show glory through architecture

  3. Pyramids of Giza

  4. Babylonian Empire

  5. Hammurabi’s Code Pillar Can be seen at the Louvre

  6. Sargon of Akkad

  7. Assyrians

  8. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

  9. Glazed Brick Lions

  10. Persian Empire:Cyrus the Great This is the world of Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord the God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he himself has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah. To every man of his people now among you I say, God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord the God of Israel, the God whose city is Jerusalem. -Ezra 1:2-3

  11. Persian Empire at its peak under Darius

  12. The Royal Road

  13. Zoroastrianism • Zoroaster • Ahura Mazda • Ahriman • Judgment Day • People control own fate

  14. Statue of Zeus at Olympus

  15. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

  16. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

  17. Pharos of Alexandria

  18. Colossus of Rhodes

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