ASSYRIA

GEOGRAPHY

• Surrounded by deserts or partially desert
• In modern day Egypt, Syria, and Iraq
• Where it is makes it a perfect place for trade
• Babylonia and Assyria have some of the same land
• Where the city is, makes it a perfect place for farming

TIME FRAME

• Assyria rose 2400 BC
• The assyrians fell to the Medes and Chaldeans in 612 BC
• After several centuries of obscurity and even loss of independence-
• Around 1400 B.C

TRADE

• Where syria was placed it made it a trade cross road
• They traded for cotton from india
• They traded spices from egypt
• Trade made Assyria rich
• They used different trade routes and 500 years later, they made another one.

TRADING (CONT)

• They had strong trade routes
• They had trade routes from

JOB SPECIALIZATION

• They had scribes that wrote on clay tablets
• They had skilled warriors to fight their battles
• Because they lived in the fertile valley, it allowed them for jobs
• They had goldsmiths to smelt gold and make different things
• They had stone cutters for making tools

GOVERNMENT

• Their government was a marnarchy
• Which meant the person who was head of the government
• Was there untill death
• In Assyria King Sargon the II
• He lead a very talented and complex army

Social hierarchy
King Sargon II
Government officials
Soldiers
Scribes
Merchants
Farmers
Slaves and servants

SURPLUS FOOD

• They domesticated sheep, cattle, and buffalo
• They ate all of the meat and used all they could
• They were very needy for protien enriched food

INCREASED WARFARE

• They had big walled fortresses to protect against intruders
• They had skilled warriors that rode in chariots
• The asyrians invented the battering ram
• Blacksmiths and metal workers made bronze and iron weapons and armor

RELIGION

• Ashur, king of the gods
• Ashurism is a polytheism religion
• The main gods were based on nature
• They have gods about heaven, religion, water, moon, sun, and storms

WRITING

• They had scribes that wrote on clay tablets
• They spoke and wrote in Cuneiform

ARCHITECTURE

• Had thick walls that supported a double row of columns
• Flat roofs houses
• The columns were made of wood
• They made palaces and houses out of mud bricks
• Stone slabs at the bottom of the house walls called orthostats