CIVILIZATION
ASSYRIAN
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Question
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Rulers claimed to get power from the gods.
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One government ruled several groups
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Many beautiful works of art were produced.
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Public works such as irrigation were organized.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sumerians were a civilization but NOT an empire. What feature did the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires have that the Sumerians lacked? One goverment ruled several groups.
Detailed explanation-2: -What feature did the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires have that the Sumerians didn’t? They had one government that ruled several groups.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Akkadians lived in northern Mesopotamia while the Sumerians lived in the south. They had a similar government and culture as the Sumerians, but spoke a different language. The government was made up of individual city-states.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mesopotamia-the land “between the rivers” in modern-day Iraq-was home to the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
Detailed explanation-5: -They built their palaces, temples and Ziggurats all along Sumerian lines, adorning them with frescoes, glazed tiles and stone steles. Like the Sumerians, the Babylonians built with mud brick.