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Ancient Mesopotamia
By Kooper Gossard
The Sumerian Empire
They built dames made from earth.
 Used wheeled carts to carry grin.
 they strapped a domesticated animals to
the carts.
 They had a monarchy form of government.
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The Akkadian Empire
 They
had a standing army.
 Sargon ruled for 56 years.
 The empire lasted for more than 200
years.
 The capital was Akkad.
Babylonian empire
They had a centralized government.
 They created taxation.
 It was named after its capital city Babylon.
 They made the code of Hammurabi.
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The Kassites and the Hittites
The Kassites tried for many years to take
Babylon.
 The Hittites came from the north and
attacked Babylon.
 They robed with there chariots Babylon
and left.
 Babylon was weekend and the Kassites
toke over.
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The Assyrian Empire
The Hittites helped the Assyrians gain an
empire.
 They learned to make iron weapons.
 They learned warfare from the Hittites.
 In 700s B.C. they were the largest army in
Mesopotamia.
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The Neo-Babylonian Empire
Babylon was their capital city.
 Nebuchadnezzar was of their best known
king.
 They had the hanging gardens.
 The hanging gardens are one of the seven
wonders of the ancient world.
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My Summary
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I learned that the Sumerian empire was
the first empire. I also learned that the
Sumerian people invented cuneiform. I
learned that there was six empires.