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Name in cuneiform:_________________________________________________ Name:__________________________ Date ___________ Period ______ Key Terms: Mesopotamia characteristics of civilization Bronze (Bronze Age) (c. 4000 – 1200 BCE) Fertile Crescent Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Mesopotamia (What river valley was it and what were the three parts?) levees empire imperialist emperor Sumerians City-states (Ur, Uruk) theocracy ensi social classes in Sumerian city-states Anthropomorphic Gilgamesh & Enkidu technological inventions of the Sumerians ziggurat arch and keystone Pictographs Phonograms Ideograms Cuneiform Scribe Behistun Rock Henry Rawlinson Darius I Sumerian trade (What did the Sumerians have to offer for trade? What did they need to get from other places?) Sumerian number system Sumerian calendar Akkadian Empire (Old Babylonian Empire) Semites Sargon I (the Great) Third Dynasty of Ur Leonard Woolley Royal Cemetery of Ur Royal Standard of Ur Amorite (Old Babylonian) Empire Hammurabi Babylon Hammurabi’s Law Code Hittites Kassites
