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10 Cards in this Set
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Cuneiform
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- 1st written language - "wedge shaped writing" - Happens in Sumer in Mesopotamia |
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Paleolithic Period
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- No writing (so no history) - Survival - Old Stone Age- Uncivilized - Nomadic- Hunter/gatherers - No religions- Egalitarian - No private property- No war/crime |
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Neolithic Period/ Agricultural Revolutions
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- New Stone Age- Civilized - Settled - 1st step domestication of animals(sheep) - 2nd step Agricultural (learned to farm) - Agriculturalists & Division of labor- Religion - Writing- Hierarchical(unequal) - Private Property |
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Mesopotamia
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Known as the "land Between two Rivers" UricLocated in what is now called "Iraq" (Uruk) First cities & physical environment - Lots of political chaos with empires rising and falling. |
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King Sargon "The Great"
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- Set up Akkadian empire - 1st Empire builder - Cultural monarchy |
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Polytheistic Paganism
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- Worshiped of multiple gods associated with nature - back then the most common from of religion in the world |
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Hammurabi
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- Build Babylonian Empire - Legal monarchy (strict law code) - Longest Empire - Most Successful empire - code of Hammurabi |
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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-cosmology of Mesopotamia - people were pessimistic - moral seized the Day |
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Assyrian Empire
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- Terror Monarchy - Enslaved majority of people they conquered - Tortured them as well - Iron technology |
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Zoroastrianism
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Dualistic Religion - Ahriman ( God of Darkness and Light) - Ahura Mazda ( God of truth and Lies) |
