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)

Location: city-state in northern Mesopotamia

Egypt

Syria Palestine

Babylonia

Anatolia

Military Organization

GOVERNMENT! Land was governed by: Assyrian

officials or Assyrian-chosen leaders

Tribute: payment given to a stronger nation by a weaker nation

Defeat and Downfall Conquered by the Chaldean and

Medes people in 612 BCE

Nebuchadnezzar makes Babylon the new capital

Persian Empire :DThe Persian Homeland

Location: Modern Day Iran Great Farmland and rich in mineral

resources• Examples: Copper, Lead, Gold, blue lapis

Cyrus the Great

Iran

Fertile Crescent

Anatolia

Different from the Assyrians

Cambyses

Darius I Used the 10,000 immortals

(bodyguard army) to take control after Darius

Empire stretched for 2,500 square miles

Greece

Government Satrapies Satraps: reported directly to Darius

Persian Achievements Royal Road: 1600 miles long and

connected the entire empire Coined money—standard for entire

empire

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?

Persian Religion Zoroastrianism

• Zoroaster: prophet (600 BCE)• Two armies fought over a person’s soul

Ahura Mazda: god of truth and light Ahriman/Ahura Mainyu: 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