Sumerian Achievements
... The Invention of Writing • The Sumerians made one of the greatest cultural advances in history. – They developed cuneiform (kyoo-NEEuh-fohrm), the world’s first system of writing. But Sumerians did not have pencils, pens, or paper. Instead, they used sharp reeds to make wedgeshaped symbols on clay ...
... The Invention of Writing • The Sumerians made one of the greatest cultural advances in history. – They developed cuneiform (kyoo-NEEuh-fohrm), the world’s first system of writing. But Sumerians did not have pencils, pens, or paper. Instead, they used sharp reeds to make wedgeshaped symbols on clay ...
Chapter 3 – “Ancient Mesopotamia”
... A. Vocabulary: Know all of the vocabulary words from this chapter, how the words are used to help explain concepts and key ideas in this chapter. Lesson 1 Mesopotamia floodplain silt semiarid drought surplus ...
... A. Vocabulary: Know all of the vocabulary words from this chapter, how the words are used to help explain concepts and key ideas in this chapter. Lesson 1 Mesopotamia floodplain silt semiarid drought surplus ...
Test date
... A. Vocabulary: Know all of the vocabulary words from this chapter, how the words are used to help explain concepts and key ideas in this chapter. Lesson 1 Mesopotamia floodplain silt semiarid drought surplus ...
... A. Vocabulary: Know all of the vocabulary words from this chapter, how the words are used to help explain concepts and key ideas in this chapter. Lesson 1 Mesopotamia floodplain silt semiarid drought surplus ...
Mesopotamia
... What effect did irrigation have on the people of Mesopotamia? Irrigation allowed farmers to grow plenty of food. More food meant more people could be fed, so the population grew. ...
... What effect did irrigation have on the people of Mesopotamia? Irrigation allowed farmers to grow plenty of food. More food meant more people could be fed, so the population grew. ...
Gilgamesh
... The Epic of Gilgamesh • Gilgamesh is one of the oldest recorded stories in the world. • It tells of an ancient King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who may have actually existed and whose name is on the Sumerian King List. • After a long history of retellings, this story was recorded, in a standardized Acadian ...
... The Epic of Gilgamesh • Gilgamesh is one of the oldest recorded stories in the world. • It tells of an ancient King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who may have actually existed and whose name is on the Sumerian King List. • After a long history of retellings, this story was recorded, in a standardized Acadian ...
Mesopotamia - ECMS
... became the city of Babylon, which was the commercial and cultural center of the middle east for almost two thousand years. – But Sargon's ambitious empire lasted for only a blink of an eye in the long time spans with which we measure Mesopotamian history. In 2125, the Sumerian city of Ur in southern ...
... became the city of Babylon, which was the commercial and cultural center of the middle east for almost two thousand years. – But Sargon's ambitious empire lasted for only a blink of an eye in the long time spans with which we measure Mesopotamian history. In 2125, the Sumerian city of Ur in southern ...
Geography/Early Man: Sumerians / Mesopotamia:
... 21. The Sumerians were a civilization but not an empire. What feature did the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires have that the Sumerians lacked? 22. What did the Akkadians use steles for? 23. King Sargon created the worlds’ first…? How? 24. What is Hammurabi best known for? 25. What made the ...
... 21. The Sumerians were a civilization but not an empire. What feature did the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires have that the Sumerians lacked? 22. What did the Akkadians use steles for? 23. King Sargon created the worlds’ first…? How? 24. What is Hammurabi best known for? 25. What made the ...
Summary - Junta de Andalucía
... The word ‘Mesopotamia’ means ‘between rivers’ and was called this because civilization developed between the river Tigris and Éufrates. In this territory the first civilization appeared whose history we know thanks to writing. Important cities also emerged that are counted as the oldest in the world ...
... The word ‘Mesopotamia’ means ‘between rivers’ and was called this because civilization developed between the river Tigris and Éufrates. In this territory the first civilization appeared whose history we know thanks to writing. Important cities also emerged that are counted as the oldest in the world ...
Art of the Near East Part 1 - WORLD.ARTvisa
... • Complex Urban Societies called CITY STATES • THEOCRACY: Each CITY STATE was under the rule and protection of different Mesopotamian deities • Sumerian kings were the god’s representatives on earth and they directed all communal activities of their CITY STATE • Monumental temples were erected in ho ...
... • Complex Urban Societies called CITY STATES • THEOCRACY: Each CITY STATE was under the rule and protection of different Mesopotamian deities • Sumerian kings were the god’s representatives on earth and they directed all communal activities of their CITY STATE • Monumental temples were erected in ho ...
Mesopotamia - SusanPannell
... “between the rivers”, specifically, the area between the Tigris River and Euphrates River (present day Iraq) • Lasted for approximately 3000 years • Its peoples were the first to irrigate fields, devised a system of writing, developed mathematics, invented the wheel and learned to work with metal ...
... “between the rivers”, specifically, the area between the Tigris River and Euphrates River (present day Iraq) • Lasted for approximately 3000 years • Its peoples were the first to irrigate fields, devised a system of writing, developed mathematics, invented the wheel and learned to work with metal ...
Chapter 3: Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
... What is social hierarchy? Another phrase that means social hierarchy is ____________. ...
... What is social hierarchy? Another phrase that means social hierarchy is ____________. ...
Chapter 3 – “Ancient Mesopotamia”
... A. Vocabulary: Know all of the vocabulary words from this chapter, how the words are used to help explain concepts and key ideas in this chapter. Lesson 1 Mesopotamia floodplain silt semiarid drought surplus ...
... A. Vocabulary: Know all of the vocabulary words from this chapter, how the words are used to help explain concepts and key ideas in this chapter. Lesson 1 Mesopotamia floodplain silt semiarid drought surplus ...
Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire /əˈkeɪdiən/ was an ancient Semitic empire centered in the city of Akkad /ˈækæd/ and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia. The empire united all the indigenous Akkadian-speaking Semites and the Sumerian speakers under one rule. The Akkadian Empire controlled Mesopotamia, the Levant, and parts of Iran.During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Semitic Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism. Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate).The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests by its founder Sargon of Akkad (2334–2279 BC). Under Sargon and his successors, Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam. Akkad is sometimes regarded as the first empire in history, though there are earlier Sumerian claimants.After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the Akkadian people of Mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major Akkadian speaking nations: Assyria in the north, and, a few centuries later, Babylonia in the south.