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SUMERIANSPURE MESOPATAMIA= PURE
POWER
TODAY The Sumerians were
located in southern Mesopotamia
Major city Suman Currently this area is
the country of Iraq Iraq was ruled by
dictatorship until the USA came in and ended that rule and now the country is recovering from war and still is in war with the USA
Major city-states Kish (Tell al-Uhaimer) Uruk Ur (al-Mukayyar) Sippar Akshak Larak Nippur Adab Umma Lagash (Tello) Bad-Tabira Larsa
City-States
4000 Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia 3800 Sumerians supplant Ubaidians in
Mesopotamia and start cities 2800 Kish, the dominant city, challenged by
Lagash;Semites dominate Kish
2700 Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, rules the city of Uruk
2340 Sargon (a Sumerian in the city of Kish) overthrows the Sumerian king of Nippur;Sargon's new kingdom is called Akkad;Sargon extends his kingdom to Syria
TIMELINE
2320 Sargon conquers Sumer 2230 Akkadian dynasty ends 2150 Nomadic Gutians overruns Akkadians and
Sumer, but Sumer revives 2130 Sumer regains independence from
Akkadian rule 2000 Hittites migrate to Asia Minor 1950 Elamites from Zagros attack Sumer and
overrun the Syrian Amorites;Amorites go to Babylon to create colonies with Ashur as center of a kingdom that will be called Assyria
MORE TIMELINE
1753 Ammorite King Hammurabi conquers all of Sumer;Hammurabi rules to 1750;His empire lasts until 1600, when the Kassites conquer most of Mesopotamia
1800 Kassites defeat the Babylonians 1593 Hittites sack Babylon and end Hammurabi's dynasty 1365 Ashur the Great, King of Assyria marries his
daughter to a Babylonian 1300 The Assyrians control all of Mesopotamia 1200 Hittites' capital Hattusas is wiped out (plague);
Phrygians move in 1050 Cosmopolitan area, with tolerance for diverse
ethnicity 1000 Assyrian Empire.
…the end of the timeline
Polytheistic- belief in many gods Temple priests washed gods statues
before and after every meal is offered
They believed if you angered the gods they would punish
But you would be rewarded by the gods if you served them well
GODS
RELIGION The ziggurats were the
site for religious activities
Ziggurat- a temple made of terraces, linked by stair cases
Sumerians believed that the Gods descended to Earth using the ziggurat as a stairway
Other Beliefs
Sumerians believed in the afterlife
So they buried their dead with their possessions because they would be able to use them in the afterlife
Ruler of Akkadia who conquered Sumer around 2300 B.C.
He united the Sumerian city-states , improved Sumer’s economy, and its military
It stayed this way for 100 years until dissolving back into its city-states.
It lost its major power and fell to northern rival, Babylonia in the 1700 B.C.
KING SARGON
The Sumerians were a polytheistic civilization that believed in honoring their gods or be punished by them
They were more successful with the city-states formed together as one instead of all on their own fighting against each other for power.
The reason the fell to Babylonia is because they could not form a army to work together while they were city-states
OUT COME
http://www.ancientscripts.com/sumerian.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sumer/a/030509sumertime.htm
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