Mesopotamia - Western Civilization II
... • Created trading pacts with Indus Valley cities, the coast of Oman, the islands and shores of the Persian Gulf, the lapis lazuli mines of Badakhshan, the cedars of Lebanon, the silver-rich Taurus Mountains, Cappadocia, Crete, and perhaps even ...
... • Created trading pacts with Indus Valley cities, the coast of Oman, the islands and shores of the Persian Gulf, the lapis lazuli mines of Badakhshan, the cedars of Lebanon, the silver-rich Taurus Mountains, Cappadocia, Crete, and perhaps even ...
Mesopotamia and the First Civilizations
... • An _______________is a long poem that tells the story of a hero • Gilgamesh is a _________________who travels around the world with a friend performing great _______________. After his friend dies, Gilgames ...
... • An _______________is a long poem that tells the story of a hero • Gilgamesh is a _________________who travels around the world with a friend performing great _______________. After his friend dies, Gilgames ...
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Ch. 3 – Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
... Hammurabi’s code was important because it was written down. Why would it have been helpful for people to have the law code written down? _________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ Invasions of Mesopotamia Who built a stro ...
... Hammurabi’s code was important because it was written down. Why would it have been helpful for people to have the law code written down? _________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ Invasions of Mesopotamia Who built a stro ...
POLITICAL
... civilization persisted, but large political units declined in favor of small city-states or regional kingdoms. Eventually invasions by Assyrians and Persians created large empires. Invented wheel for transportation Cuneiform – writing developed by the Sumerians using wedge-shaped stylus (like a ball ...
... civilization persisted, but large political units declined in favor of small city-states or regional kingdoms. Eventually invasions by Assyrians and Persians created large empires. Invented wheel for transportation Cuneiform – writing developed by the Sumerians using wedge-shaped stylus (like a ball ...
Mesopotamia-0809 suplementary files
... D. Difficult to learn and its materials hard to acquire. E. B, C and D are correct. ...
... D. Difficult to learn and its materials hard to acquire. E. B, C and D are correct. ...
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... descend into the Euphrates Valley, just as the Akkadians had done under Sargon. These were the Amorites from Syria near the Mediterranean. They seized the city of Babylon, which is about 50 miles south of Baghdad, the current capital of Iraq. The Amorites established their capital and their king, th ...
... descend into the Euphrates Valley, just as the Akkadians had done under Sargon. These were the Amorites from Syria near the Mediterranean. They seized the city of Babylon, which is about 50 miles south of Baghdad, the current capital of Iraq. The Amorites established their capital and their king, th ...
Ch 4 Cornell Notes
... ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Building materials were scarce. ______________________________ ________________________________________________________ Mesopotamians faced 4 key problems as they tried to survive: 1) __ ...
... ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Building materials were scarce. ______________________________ ________________________________________________________ Mesopotamians faced 4 key problems as they tried to survive: 1) __ ...
What is a Civilization?
... Farming Revolution • Farming Revolution started about 10,000 years ago • Domestication-tame plants and animals for human use • Villages grew as nomadic life changed for farming • Specialization-development of different types of job, not everyone needed for food collection ...
... Farming Revolution • Farming Revolution started about 10,000 years ago • Domestication-tame plants and animals for human use • Villages grew as nomadic life changed for farming • Specialization-development of different types of job, not everyone needed for food collection ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
... • It helped people keep records and pass on their ideas to others. • They developed writing to keep track of business deal and other events. • Their writing was called cuneiform. • It consisted of hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets. ...
... • It helped people keep records and pass on their ideas to others. • They developed writing to keep track of business deal and other events. • Their writing was called cuneiform. • It consisted of hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets. ...
Sumer`s first king and the subject of one of the first pieces of
... The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates can be described as ___UNPREDICTABLE______________. Assyrians would surround a city or lay ___SIEGE______________ to it until they defeat it. This empire was led by Sargon. AKKADIAN This horse drawn “wagon” led many Assyrians into battle. CHARIOT The Mesopota ...
... The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates can be described as ___UNPREDICTABLE______________. Assyrians would surround a city or lay ___SIEGE______________ to it until they defeat it. This empire was led by Sargon. AKKADIAN This horse drawn “wagon” led many Assyrians into battle. CHARIOT The Mesopota ...
Ancient Mesopotamia In the Sumerian Ci
... • Nomads moved into the rich lands and began small villages that turned into towns • After a while, these towns formed into civilization of Sumer • Sumer is usually called “Cradle of Civilization” • The large cities became city-states where the city gov. would rule over the cities and the land aroun ...
... • Nomads moved into the rich lands and began small villages that turned into towns • After a while, these towns formed into civilization of Sumer • Sumer is usually called “Cradle of Civilization” • The large cities became city-states where the city gov. would rule over the cities and the land aroun ...
Slide 1
... By 1800 BC, a powerful city-state had arisen in Babylon, an old Sumerian city on the Euphrates. Babylon’s greatest monarch (mah-nark), Hammurabi, conquered all of Mesopotamia. During his 42-year reign, Hammurabi oversaw many building and irrigation projects, improved the tax collection system, and b ...
... By 1800 BC, a powerful city-state had arisen in Babylon, an old Sumerian city on the Euphrates. Babylon’s greatest monarch (mah-nark), Hammurabi, conquered all of Mesopotamia. During his 42-year reign, Hammurabi oversaw many building and irrigation projects, improved the tax collection system, and b ...
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia (/ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/, from the Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία ""[land] between rivers""; Arabic: بلاد الرافدين bilād ar-rāfidayn; Persian: میانرودان miyān rodān; Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ Beth Nahrain ""land of rivers"") is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of Syria, as well as parts of southeastern Turkey and of southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization by the Western world, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age, it was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires. The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthian Empire. Mesopotamia became a battleground between the Romans and Parthians, with parts of Mesopotamia coming under ephemeral Roman control. In AD 226, it fell to the Sassanid Persians and remained under Persian rule until the 7th century Muslim conquest of Persia of the Sasanian Empire. A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.