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24 Cards in this Set
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What do you Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley all have in common |
They all have agriculture -water All near river valleys largely populated because of surplus |
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Tell about the Indus Valley Water |
It has on schedule flooding |
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What does the word Mesopotamia mean |
Between rivers which is referencing its position between the Tigris and Euphrates River |
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Tell about mesopotamias waters |
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are violent, difficult to navigate, and unpredictable |
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What is mesopotamias written law code |
Hammurabi's code |
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What is mesopotamias religion |
Zoroastrianism |
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Ziggurats |
The center of community life in Mesopotamia. It was a temple, storehouse, and Treasury |
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Tell about the material progress of Mesopotamia |
It had irrigation projects, advanced systems of math, and the invention of the wheel |
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Mesopotamians pay special attention to |
Astronomy and astrology |
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What did the palace rival |
The temple |
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What kind of role did the palace Kings play |
A quasi religious troll in the way they did sacred marriages. They soon called themselves priests |
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What kind of power shift was shown in the Mesopotamian civilization |
A power shift from God to people |
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Cuneiform |
Record transactions |
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Hammurabi |
Rolled kingdom of Babylon. An eye for an eye |
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Hittites |
Because of iron smelting leading to revolutionize warfare, Hittites conquered much of the Asia Minor in northern Mesopotamia |
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Babylonians conquered who |
Sumerian |
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Babylon was taken over by who |
Cassites |
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Assyrians |
Bullies of Mesopotamia, most durable form of political organization in Empire, create an empire based on military superiority conquest and terrorism |
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What military techniques did Assyria use |
Siege warfare, intimidation, and iron weapons |
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What did Assyria create |
Postal service, central government, extensive library, system of highways |
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Chaldeans made a new Babylonian Empire under who |
Nebuchadnezzar |
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Neo Assyrians |
Did all things for Asher there God, whole world view wood base on the apocalypse coming if they lost a battle. They lost to Nineveh and were therefore conquered |
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Architectural achievement of the chaldeans |
Hanging gardens of babylon |
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Chaldeans conquered |
Mesopotamia, syria, and palestine. |
