Chapter 6 Mesopotamia
Outline

Lesson 1:  The Land Between Two Rivers

The History of the Ancient Near East  Electronic Compendium

Mesopotamia

Sumer

Kish

Hububa Kabire

Mesopotamia Creative Impulse

Chronology: The Near East

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Mesopotamian Artifacts

Mesopotamia Time Line

The Royal Game of Ur

Lesson 2:  The Contributions of the Sumerians

The Epic  of Gilgamesh

Ashurbanipal

The Gods of Sumer

cuneiform

Development of Writing

Sumer the Religion

Lesson 3:  The First Empires

Lugal-zaggesi

Uruk

Sargon of Akkad

Gutians

Assyria

Shamshi-Adad

Babylonia

Hammurabi

Ur-nammu

The Code of Hammurabi

Kassites

Life and Times of the  Babylonians

History of the Assyrians

Code of Hammurabi  Sourcebook

Assyrians Today

Lesson 4:  New Empires

Marduk

E-temen-anki

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar

Adad-Nirari

Tiglath-Pileser II

Chaldeans

Ishtar Gate

Babylonian Astronomy

King Nabonidus

Cyrus the Great

Medes

Plumbing in Mesopotamia

Model of the
Ishtar Gate

Babylon:  The Ancient City

Mesopotamian Arts

Cyrus the Great
Great World Leaders

Cyrus the Great Seals and Maps