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| what was the 1st civilization? | Sumer |
| Where was the 1st civilization located? | between tigris and euphrates river valleys |
| What is Sumer sometimes called? | "garden of Adam and Eve" |
| How did the geography affect the city of sumer? | there were no natural barriers, therefore many invasions and/or wars; because of the differences in people, from north and west, it was hard to unite and many ideas spread; the overflow was sometimes violent or sometimes never came....irregular |
| how did the tigris/euphrates river valley lead to the development of Civilization? | irregular overflow(famine/destruction), 1st cities..Mesopotamia, built irrigation systems(dikes/ditches); transportaton, trade, communication, hunting |
| the 1st gov'ts were.... | city-states |
| what is a city state? | a city and its surroundings |
| Who became the kings? | military leader and priests |
| how was kingship passed down? | it was heretitary |
| what were some king traites? | old and had beards |
| what was important in a sumerian civiliztion? | walls - protected from invasions, made up for loss of natural barriers; ziggurats for praise; food storage; sun-dried brick was used to build, was ruined in voilent overflows, ruled by kings |
| what is a ziggurat? | a tall temple in sumerain cities, school for scribes |
| what did the kings do? | maintain walls, irrigation systems, represented gods and had some religious duties |
| the sumerian people were.... | polytheistic, had over 3000 gods,, worshiped nature and wrote in cuneiform |
| what is a civil law? | a civil law is a law dealing with private rights or matters such as businesses, propery insurance,inheritance, marriage, and divorce |
| what's a satrap? | governor who headed a province of an empire |
| barter economy? | trading services or goods for others |
| colony? | place settled and ruled from people of a distant land |
| sumerians had _____ lives? | harsh |
| Holy of holys was like the,........ | 10 commandments |
| belived in afterlief but it was | unhappy/ suffering |
| they wrote in | cuneiform, wrote right to left |
| used ____ to write on | sun-dried brick.......broke easily |
| their class system was........ | heirarchy.........kings/priests..............merchants, proests, artisans...............peasants, farmers, slaves |
| women were in what class when they were mother-goddesses? | high class |
| mother-goddess were ____ but they later weren't as much and their class went down, | appreciated |
| What were contributions of sumerians? | writing, 1st cities, irrigation systems, wheel, math (algebra/geometry/arithmatic(#6), and ziggurats |
| Reason's Assyria declined? | lack of leadership and invasions |
| Achievements of Assyria? | 1st library, used cunieform, good army -- terror, forced immigration |
| where is assyria located? | north of akadd |
| who's assyria's ruler? | assurbanipal |
| reason babylon declined? | lack of leadership and they were invaded |
| what were achievments of the babylonians? | published code of hammurabi, code of law--300 laws |
| who was the leader of babylon? | hammerubi |
| where babylon located? | south of akadd north of sumer |
| where's akkadd | north sumer |
| leader of akaddian? | sargon |
| why did akaddians decline? | lack of leaders, invasions |
| who the leader of chaldean? | nebuchanezzar |
| location of chaldean? | persian gulf to med. sea |
| achievements of chaldean? | expanding babylon, astronomy, hanging gardens |
| location of persia? | south of caspain sea |
| location of phoenicia? | east of med sea....north palestine |
| pheonicia's ruler? | many |
