Chapter 6
Lesson 4
New Empires
Pages 175-180
How are these empires
similar and how are they
different?
How were these empires
able to rise to such power,
and why did they all
collapse?
A New Assyrian Empire
• The Assyrians were led by great kings: AdadNirari and Tiglath-Pileser III.
• The Assyrians fought frequent wars, and were
harsh to the people they conquered.
• 30,000 Syrians had to march across the desert
as a punishment.
• These brutal punishments made many enemies
for the Assyrians who were eventually
overthrown.
A New Babylonian Empire
• Like the Assyrians, the Babylonians were great
conquerors.
• Nebuchadnezzar was a powerful king of the
New Babylonian Empire.
• Many of the conquered victims were forced into
exile, or forced removal from ones home. They
also had to pay huge amounts of their money in
taxes.
Babylonian Achievements
• Nebuchadnezzar II used much of his wealth to fund
great building projects (The Hanging Gardens of
Babylon) and advances in science (astronomy).
• Astronomers,
scientists who
study the
movements of the
stars and planets,
based calendars on
cycles of the moon.
Babylonian Achievements 2
• Another achievement included the division of an hour
into 60 minutes.
• In mathematics, the Babylonians invented place value.
• Eventually, the Babylonians would fall apart in the
same way that other civilizations did. They did little to
help their people. When the Persians invaded, the
people of Babylon welcomed the invaders.