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15 Cards in this Set
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CUNEIFORM
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First accounting tool using concrete
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tag
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Employed Stamp & Cylinder Seal
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used to make an impression for owner ship
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used to make an impression...
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Pictographs and Ideographs
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use of pictures as a writting style
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hirogliphics
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EDUBBA
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first school
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UMMIA
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expert
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TUPPSARS
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rulers of tablets
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Reed stylus
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used to inscrie tablets
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wedge shaped symbols
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became the diplomatic script
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Sir Henry Rawlison
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deciphered the Behistum increiption
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SUMERIANS
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invented civilization, settled southern Mesopotamia, creative, urban, w/complex organization innovatively sturctured state adminstration,first bell letters
generated many fields of knowledge 1st primitive democracy |
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EN
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Lord Temporary civil crises solver
chosen from assembly of elders or warriors. limitations of assemblies, Best example of Gilgamesh of uruk |
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Jacobsen's Sumerian king list analysis
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1) kinship was divinely invented & bestowed.
2) holy, productive, obendient ruller was rewarded. 3) continuity of ruler was broken by flood 4) Kingship was erroneously thought singular 4) kingship was non-sexist |
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Lugal
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Big man, Military Crisis solver. Exercised martial law, often became permanent absulute king, examples AGGA, SARGON AND SHULGI
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ENSI
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Lord Productive manager, appointed governor, appointee of a conqueror, oversaw taxation, building , order and stabiliy\ty, example GUDEA of Lagash
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AKKADIANS
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semitc, civilizers of mid-mesopotamia, adopted elements of Sumer's culture,parts of their language became dominate and it was a diplomatic language
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