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Characteristics of Civilizations |
Urban Society, Religion, Literacy, Government, Specialization, Social Classes, Tool- Making, Concept of Time, Leisure, Education/ Criticism |
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Where is the Fertile Crescent? |
The area between the Euphrates and Tigris river where the soil is fertiloe |
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Why is it called the Fertile Crescent? |
The soil is fertile and the land is shaped like a crescent |
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what are the two rivers that surround the Fertile Crescent? |
Euphrates and Tigris rivers |
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How did people grow food in the Fertile Crescent? |
The used irrigation |
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Irrigation |
controlling water to grow crops |
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Mesopotamia means literallly |
"the land between the rivers" |
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Why were civilizations drawn to the Mesopotamia area? |
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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Cunieform |
Sumerian writing |
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How did the Sumerians protect themselves? |
mud- brick walls |
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Sumerian city-state |
A state with its own government and God(s), and ruler |
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How was Sumerian government and religion related? |
the priest was also the king a.k.a a priest-king |
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what was the problem for all Mesopotamian civilizations(except Persia)? |
the empire became to big to control |
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What was the Code of Hammurabi? |
a set of laws written by Hammurabi |
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what was the Code of Hammurabi written on? |
a stele(stone slab) |
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How did Hammurabi's Code depend on social classes? |
the upper class was punished more harshly b/c they had were worse than the lower class and had more money |
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Women/ Slave rights |
Women: buy/sell property; own business Slaves: could be bought or rented |
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What did the Phoenicians spread throughout the Mediterranean region? |
trade and ideas |
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What religion did the Hebrews follow; was it monotheistic or polytheistic? |
Judaism- monotheistic |
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What artifact of the Hebrews explains some of the early history of the Jewish people? |
their religous book called the Torah |
