Based on the description of the Babylonian Empire, draw what might have been the extent of the Babylonian Empire over the map of the Assyrian Empire.

After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the Amorites were the next people to dominate Mesopotamia. The Amorites were a Semitic tribe that moved into central Mesopotamia. King Hammurabi of the city of Babylon is the most famous of the Amorite rulers.  Hammurabi founded an empire known as the Babylonian Empire, which was named after his capital city. Hammurabi ruled from about 1792-1750 BC.  The beginning of Hammurabi's reign was peaceful. As a defensive measure, Hammurabi had the walls around Babylon improved, and through diplomacy, made allies with many of the cities north of Babylon. In the last ten years of his reign, Hammurabi conquered Lower Mesopotamia. He used the Euphrates river to his advantage. Hammurabi held back the waters of the Euphrates, ruining the crops of lower cities, then he released the water and flooded his enemies. In this way Hammurabi ruled most of Mesopotamia.Hammurabi is best known for a set of laws he gave to his empire known as the Code of Hammurabi. The laws were carved on 8 foot stones, called steles, and placed in the cities of his empire. In this way the laws could not be changed and were posted for all to see, though few people could read. Hammurabi wanted to be known as a fair and just ruler.

You can read some of the laws from the Code of Hammurabi, which I found listed online; what do you think about these laws?

If someone cuts down a tree on someone else's land, he will pay for it.

If someone is careless when watering his fields, and he floods someone else's by accident, he will pay for the grain he has ruined.

If a man wants to throw his son out of the house, he has to go before a judge and say, "I don't want my son to live in my house any more." The judge will find out the reasons. If the reasons are not good, the man can't throw his son out.

If the son has done some great evil to his father, his father must forgive him the first time. But if he has done something evil twice, his father can throw him out.

If a thief steals a cow, a sheep, a donkey, a pig, or a goat, he will pay ten times what it is worth. If he doesn't have any money to pay with, he will be put to death.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. If a man puts out the eye of another man, put his own eye out. If he knocks out another man's tooth, knock out his own tooth. If he breaks another man's bone, break his own bone.

If a doctor operates on a patient and the patient dies, the doctor's hand will be cut off.

If a builder builds a house, and that house collapses and kills the owner's son, the builder's son will be put to death.

If a robber is caught breaking a hole into the house so that he can get in and steal, he will be put to death in front of that hole.

If a son strike his own father, his hands shall be cut off.

After the reign of Hammurabi, the Babylonians were attacked and weakened by the Hittites, a group of people from Asia Minor. The capital city of Babylon was sacked. Eventually, the Assyrians would conquer Babylon and Mesopotamia, but the lasting achievements of Babylon included advances in mathematics, astronomy and trade.

Ancient Assyria and the Assyrians

The Assyrian Empire Map

This is the Taylor Prism, named after the archaeologist who discovered it in 1830. The prism a six-sided clay object with a paragraph of cuneiform on each side. The language is Akkadian. Sennacherb, king of Assyria from 704-681 BC, had this made. On the prism, Sennacherib brags about his military conquests, including the siege of the Judean city of Lachish. The Taylor Prism is now in the British Museum.

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