# GEP1005 Week 3 - Part 2

**Channel:** BAUGO
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLJfGipe0E
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/_HLJfGipe0E

## Chapters

- 0:09 — The Rise of Akkadian Empire
- 1:44 — Babylonian Rule and Hammurabi
- 4:30 — Assyrian Expansion and Collapse
- 7:09 — Mesopotamian Society and Social Classes

## Transcript

**[0:09]:** the acadian empire after 2400 bc a non-sumerian city akat in mesopotamia conquered the sumerian city-states it was the first empire in the history of the humanity it was an empire with its provinces sargon the absolute ruler established acadian empire around 2370 bc his sculpture is one of the finest ones to survive from the acadian period extensive tax revenues provided his professional military organization let's examine acadian victory steel victor steele of naram sin of akkad over the mountain dwelling lullaby depicts acadian period in mesopotamia the king wearing the horned helmet denoting divine power strides forward at the head of his army hundred thousands of documents which had been found in the remnants of the sumerian city-states indicated highly centralized governmental structure people kept records of agriculture husbandry and commerce acadian empire lasted more than 200 years in mesopotamia in a century ur was attacked and invaded by the entrance of sematic-speaking people from the north and

**[1:44]:** west who were called the amorites mris invaded mesopotamia and founded their own cities in the place of sumerian cities and founded their own dynasties such as uruk babilon larsa and issen among them babylon had prominence the babylonian empire babylon invaded mesopotamian cities and ruled the region about 300 years from about 1800 bc until 1500 bc the famous babylonian king maybe you might remember hamurabi hamrabi unified much of mesopotamia which lacked political unification until his reign hammurabi is known for his codificational laws which bears his name writing down the laws for everyone to see hamurabi made sure that everyone throughout the empire followed the same legal code so that governors in different regions did not enact their own one of the crucial points in his laws was his entrancement to the king divine right this feature of king was transmitted to roman emperors than european kings trade contacts of mesopotamian city-states were wide-ranging and they gave

**[3:22]:** considerable attention to merchant class and commercial law acadian and babylonian empires maintained and elaborated sumerian cultural traditions artistic monuments celebrated rulers power they extended sumerian astronomy and mathematics babylonian period witnessed the unification of mesopotamia in the babylonian mythology the tower of babel was created it indicated a construction of a heavenly tower in which a unified group of people lived harmoniously and spoke one common language the power of the image of the babylonian tower was so strong that when the european union was established the same image was used by the european parliament building in strasbourg in france after the death of hammurabi babylonians lost control over the region and assyrians managed to dominate the region in

**[4:30]:** the north of cyrus assyrians were people who live in a city of northern mesopotamia in usur they spoke a semitic language closely similar to that of the babylonians it was named after its capital city asher assyrians became under the domination of mitanni kingdom which was formed by an indo-european-speaking people in mesopotamia between 1500 bc and 1300 bc answer was a crucial center for trade later it also emerged as a political power after the fall of mithani during the 1400 bc aramians nomadic and agricultural people from northern syria invaded assyria they were semitic people speaking a language called aramic after 1000 bc assyrians expanded second time in mesopotamia to the much of asia minor syria and egypt the empire became very large to govern assyrians ruled this large empire dividing it into provinces they had military garrisons in each province and applied taxation system as usual they had vassal kings who had to pay tribute to

**[6:01]:** the assyrians assyrian rulers applied forced settlement policy to populate the empire's sparsely inhabited regions when the empire too large to govern and unable to prevent civil wars the rulers divided the assyrian land the medes powerful people coming from persia attacked assyrian and babylonians joined the medals as well they destroyed assyrian cities however the medes did not continue to their invasion so that babylonians took over the assyrian empire how the mesopotamian states and empires ended the invasion of high tide people of the mesopotamian land put an end to the political existence of the mesopotamian states and empires high tides were one of the indo-european speaking groups entered from central asia and established a large empire around

**[7:09]:** 1400 bc and 1200 bc by the way the high tides will be covered in the week of anatolian civilizations let's close this chapter by mentioning some main features of the social structure in mesopotamia hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets informed modern people about the social life of the mesopotamians samuel noah kramer leading a stereologist and specialist in sumerian history and language wrote a book titled with history starts at sumer by depending on the clay tablets this book was translated into turkish by moses in she was a leading specialist on sumerian acadian and high tide languages the social structure was composed of kings the highest purists periods or scribes military men artisans peasants and slaves they constituted the social strata in the sumerian society slavery had existed in all mesopotamia there were two types of slavery the depth and the shettle as the term implies the chateau slaves were bought and sold like a material and

**[8:37]:** had no any rights they had certain way of hairstyle and dressing to be able to distinguish them in the society dead slaves originated by people defaulted on loans they could not buy and sold and could repurchase their freedom by paying off their loans hamrave's law gives information about the professions and daily life of people in mesopotamia there were different professions like traders builders judges surgeons people make investment in land money lending and international

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