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Empire Building
Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians Struggle for a Legacy
Empire: when one ruler controls several peoples, nations, or independent states
-Benefits-Challenges
-Often try to show glory through architecture
Pyramids of Giza
Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi’s Code Pillar
Can be seen at the Louvre
Sargon of Akkad
Assyrians
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Glazed Brick Lions
Persian Empire:Cyrus the Great
This is the world of Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord the God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he
himself has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah. To every man of his people now among you I say, God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah,
and rebuild the house of the Lord the God of Israel, the God whose city is Jerusalem.
-Ezra 1:2-3
Persian Empire at its peak under Darius
The Royal Road
Zoroastrianism
• Zoroaster• Ahura Mazda• Ahriman• Judgment Day• People control own
fate
Statue of Zeus at Olympus
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Pharos of Alexandria
Colossus of Rhodes