What common characteristics did the empires of Assyria and Babylon share? What factors caused their decline?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Similarities between Assyria and Babylon
1. both developed in Mesopotamia
2. monumental building projects
3. strong ideology of rule based on fear or vengenence
a. strong rule of kings
1. Assyrian kings were not divine, but heroic and intimate with gods
2. Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon
b. Babylonian belief in their independence
4. empires of war
5. belief in learning and literacy
B. Decline of the empires
1. Assyrian Empire
a. failure of kings seeking to enhance their power by claiming to communicate with forces in nature
b. led to lost power and the rising of competing factions
c. problems with succession
2. Babylonian Empire
a. also weakened by loss of power of ruler
1. dynasty could produce no more dynamic leaders
b. Babylon and Egypt fought each other to exhaustion in their efforts to replace Assyria
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