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CHAPTER 1.2 Notes
pp. 132-139
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Civilizations
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mesopotamia
Irrigation
Sumer
City-state
Artisans
Cuneiform
Scribes
Sargon
Empire
Babylon
Hammurabi
Queues:
1. What are the six basic characteristics of a civilization?
2. What did the rivers provide the people in the first civilizations?
Why were the first civilizations formed there?
3. Where was Mesopotamia located?
4. What did farmers in Mesopotamia do to control water problems
and ensure that they could grow plenty of food?
5. In what region of southern Mesopotamia had many cities formed
by 3000 BC?
6. Why did Sumerian city-states often go to war with one another?
How did they protect their city-states?
7. What were the three social classes that divided the people in
Sumer?
8. What is the name of the world’s oldest known story?
9. What is Hammurabi best known for?
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What were the advances in math? (What did they invent?)