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Abraham |
Led a group of shepherds and peasants from Mesopotamia to Canaan God asked him to teach the shepherds that there was only one God and to believe in him(monotheism) |
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Moses |
Name means drown out because he was thrown out of the Nile River Led the Hebrews out of Egypt to Canaan Was a Hebrew Taken in by the Pharaoh's daughter Was the Prince of Egypt Told the Pharaoh that the foods would come Received the Ten Commandments from God |
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Babylonians |
Babylonian empire rose in 1750 BC Controlled territory from Persian Gulf to Egypt in 600 BC Hammurabi was the king Followed the laws in Hammurabi's Code |
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Assyrians |
Invented the battering ram 612 BC Chaldeans and Medea overthrow the Assyrians |
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Babylon |
Located between Akkad and Sumer |
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Sumerians |
Gathered information about the body from war victims made drugs from herbs thought most diseases were from displeased Gods were the first civilization came to rise because irrigation allowed farmers to grow surpluses of food invented the sailboat as a way to transport goods |
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New Babylonian Empire |
Falls in 539 BC City of Babylon is spared |
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Hammurabi |
King of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC wrote down the oldest known code of laws- Hammurabi's Code Contains 282 laws ranging from marriage to property |
