3. 4.1 Outcomes
✤ Explain why the Hyksos were able to invade
Egypt
✤ Identify key events in the history and decline of
Egypt’s New Kingdom
✤ Describe the Kushite conquest of Egypt
✤ Summarize the achievements of Meroe
12. Decline of New Kingdom
Primary problems Consequences
Famines, land shortages,
Exposure to invasion
and sizeable migrations
Limited areas of soil
Sea Peoples exploit
fertility
instability
Occasional grain
Kushite kingdom
shortages
invades
18. Assyria developed a dominant military and established a
well-organized administration until revolts wore down the
empire.
1. Analyze the sources of Assyrian military strength
2. Evaluate Assyrian achievements
3. Trace the Assyrian decline
19. 850 BCE, Assyria rises
Sennacherib destroyed 89
cities and 820 villages,
burned Babylon and
ordered tens of thousands
killed
Advances SW to Egypt
Esarhaddon: “I tore up the
root of Kush, and not one
therein escaped to submit
to me”
20. Technology Strategies
✤ Leather & metal body ✤ Siege
armour ✤ Pontoon bridges
✤ Metal helmets ✤ Dug beneath walls
✤ Iron swords and spears ✤ Archers cleared walls
✤ Ladders ✤ Battering rams for gates
✤ No mercy
27. ✤ Explain the rise of the Persian Empire
✤ Describe the unique features of the Persian government
and its official religion, Zoroastrianism
28. Zoroastrianism
Founded between 8th & 6th century BCE
First monotheistic religion in recorded history
Only one Creator and supreme force, Ahura Mazda
Lesser gods, and two controlling forces
asha (truth, righteousness, existance, etc) and
druj (the opposites)
29.
30. Cyrus, conquered from 550 to 539 BCE
Son, Cambyses, did not rule long
Darius takes throne in 521 BCE
satrap
Royal Road...
31. “It is said that as many days as there are in the whole
journey, so many are the men and horses that stand
along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a
day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor
rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their
appointed course with all speed.”
- Herodotus
32. “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of
night stays these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds”
- carved over the entrance
to the central post office building
in New York City.
37. • Mini-poster summarizing the history & beliefs of assigned
Ethical System.
•Illustrate how a follower would respond to one of the
following:
a.Being drafted into war (do you go willingly or not? why?)
b.Winning the lottery (Share your winnings? With who? Why or why not?)
c.Being subpoenaed to testify against a friend or family
member (Do you lie or tell the truth under oath?)
d.Disposing of household garbage (walk 5-miles to dump, or hide in
forest?)
1 = Confucianism
2 = Daoism
3 = Legalism
Thutmose III, warlike - pushed down into Nubia
1400 Egypt attacks the Hittites in Anatolia
Ramses II signs peace treaty
After war with Hittites, New Kingdom enters a Golden Age of building
Abu-Simbal
Nubians copied & continued Egyptian culture
n.b. ASSYRIA
Goddess Ishtar
Dependent states w/ Tribute . . . or else . . .
Ashurbanipal & his Library
Persian king castrates 400 leaders & elders of Assyria
Assyrians converted to Christianity w/ the Apostle Thomas - brought Christianity to China, Japan, Philippines