Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0408 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Assyria, Babylon, and the Iron Age
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The idea
Hammurabi made Babylon an empire in the seventeen hundreds BCE; the Hittites followed from Anatolia. The Iron Age began about twelve hundred BCE, and the Neo-Assyrians first held both Mesopotamia and Egypt. Babylon and the Medes then destroyed Assyria.
In practice
Each empire adopting older peoples' gods and practices.
Where people slip
The glossary's Bronze Age end, eleven ten BCE, is not voiced.
Your place on the trail
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