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

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http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sumer/a/030509sumertime.htm

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