Sumerian, akkadians, babylonians, assyrians,chaldeans persia??

Question

what are the geography, characteristics and important cotributions of sumerian, akkadians, babylonians, assyrians,chaldeans, persia??

Answer 1

A few very rudimentary thoughts:

Sumerians

- Geography: grassland alluvial plain (later leveed and irrigated), Tigris-Euphrates delta, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq

- Characteristics: had black hair? (called themselves 'black-headed people')

- Language: Sumerian, not clearly related to any other language

- Contribution: invented cuneiform (i.e., originated one of the first WRITING technologies in the world, the reed-lines-on-clay-then-fired system)

Akkadians

- Geography: grassland alluvial plain (later leveed and irrigated), lower Tigris-Euphrates, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq

- Language: Akkadian, an eastern Semitic language

- Contribution: site of one of the first UNIFICATIONS of several city-states under one secular head, in this case the lugal Sargon I

Babylonians

- Geography: irrigated alluvial plain, Euphrates River, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq

- Language: a dialect of Akkadian

- Contribution: origin of one of the best preserved example of 'LAW-giving' by one of its most famous head-of-state, Hammurabi, developed MATHEMATICS beyond simple counting

Assyrians

- Geography: highlands around upper Tigris; later pan-Mesopotamia

- Language: a dialect of Akkadian; later co-existed with a dialect of Aramaic, a western Semitic language

- Contribution: one of the first in the world to systematize EMPIRE-building, from military innovations to facilitate conquest to deportation of indigenous peoples to erase pre-conquest identity

Chaldeans

- Geography: grassland alluvial plain (later leveed and irrigated), mouth of the Tigris-Euphrates, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq

- Language: a dialect of Akkadian

- Contribution: (not sure)

Achaemenid Persians

- Geography: desert plateau; later pan-Iranian Plateau, pan-Mesopotamia, southwest Central Asian steppes, Canaan, Egypt, and Anatolia

- Language: Old Persian for own use, Elamite in courts, Aramaic as lingua franca of empire

- Contribution: one of the first ethnically diverse sovereignties, adapting native languages and customs as means of CONTROL, added to military developments with the myriad and heterogeneous ARMY drawn from SATRAPS

Answer 2

Ever heard of reading or research or Google?

Answer 3

Geography: In and around the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers...

Characteristics: Like the Nile, civilizations formed in Mesopotamia based on farming...

Persia was based where modern Iran is.

Akkadians were an eastern semitic tribe, from the Zagros Mountains.

The rest, represent different people, in different periods, who inhabited the Fertile Crescent (Modern Iraq)!

Answer 4

this seems like an AP World History summer assighnment question. I took AP World 2 years ago, got a 4 on the AP exam, but I diddn't get it by asking my questions on Yahoo answers. I got it by reading the textbook! thats really the only way to pass an AP exam and succeed in any AP class!

But I do remmeber a little bit from AP world so I'll let you know the very vague details I remmeber.

All those civilizations were one of the first in history and they were all in the Mesopotamia (present day Middle East) region. Summerians are important because they were the very first real civilization in history. I don't remmeber any info about the akkadians. Babylonians were important because they were a bit more of  a complex and developed civilization than the rest. Babylonians had a centralized government (a king). One of the most notoriously known kings of the Babylon empire was King Hammaurabi. He created one of the worlds first laws or rules called "Hammurabi's code." Babylonians were just a group of really rough people and their king, king ammurabi, was known for being super harsh and cruel. King Hammurabi's most noted quote is "an eye for an eye," which tells us that he was really strict and brutal in his ruling. I don't remmeber anything off the top of my head about assyrians or chaldeans. Persia is important because it was the first real empire. It was a HUGE empire, and it was the first in existence. Persia is known for enslaving the Hebrews (Jews).

Again this is really just really brief general stuff I remmeebr off the top of my head. Really just read the textbook and make chapter outlines.

Answer 5

that sounds like a test/ homework question. I'm afraid I can't answer that without YOUR textbook. Otherwise try wikipedia. It's called.... research.