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DHQ Week 8
1. The two graphics below show the evolution
of 2 major contributions in Mesopotamia.
What is their significance to early civilizations?
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1. Cuneiform – 1st written language
Phoenician Alphabet – simplified writing
Allowed record keeping, trading, etc.
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2. What was the Code of Hammurabi? What
city-state was this king from?
3. How did civilizations become better at
tasks such as irrigation and farming?
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2. Set of laws/rules / Babylon
3. They had a centralized government
* They had set rules/procedures
* Kept order within the city-state
* Everyone had a specific job
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4. How was early Mesopotamia governed?
5. Discuss the significance of early religion on
daily life in Mesopotamia.
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4. god-kings (selected by god to rule)
5. Everything centered around
gods/goddesses (polytheistic) until
Judaism was discovered (monotheistic).
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6. What was the world’s 1st monotheistic
religion?
7. Who was the founder? Origin?
Principle belief?
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6. Judaism
7. Abraham, Israel (Canaan) and belief in one god