Quiz Monday - October 30

- content Unit 1 Section 3
- notebook will be scored for Unit 1 Section 3 and Unit 1 Section 2

Content of Unit 1 and Section 3

• King Nebuchadnezzar

                Of Chaldeans

province
Political district

caravan
Groups of traveling merchants (p. 146)

astronomer

• People who study the heavenly bodies
• Mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon

Assyrian

• Around 900 BC, started

       to conquer rest of Mesopotamia

Why Were the Assyrians So Strong?

• Iron weapons!!!
• Soft?
• Hittites develop iron technology
• Heat iron ore
• Hammer
• Rapidly cool

First library in Nineveh

Chaldeans Accomplishments

7 day week

• Chaldeans  with the Medes  defeat the Assyrian army
• Babylon Located on major trade route between Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf